Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Oct 2013 22:07:32 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Check for the FSF mailing address |
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On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 12:18:04PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > You can do that, but I know a whole lot of lawyers who will not like > that, as you aren't being explicit about what the license of the file > is, and relying on something else.
I was afraid that some legal-profession-mumbo-jumbo would require the explicit stating of the license in *every* goddam file. Oh well...
> Remember, Linux kernel source files are licensed with all sorts of > different licenses, all of which are compatable and default to GPL > when used as a whole, but can be different on their own.
Right.
> Lawyers, just like kernel developers, are never happy, it's not in > their nature...
Why am I not surprised?! :-)
Thanks.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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