Matthew J. Fisher wrote:
I've come across a few files in the kernel which have copyright
statements, but no license. Would these be considered free or unfree?
The copyright statements don't actually say that any rights are
reserved. They simply list the authors and copyright dates.
http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel.Ubuntu-hardy-linux-2-6-24-12-22--arch--x86--ia32--fpu32-c
http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel.Ubuntu-hardy-linux-2-6-24-12-22--arch--x86--ia32--ia32-aout-c
http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel.Ubuntu-hardy-linux-2-6-24-12-22--arch--x86--ia32--ia32entry-S
http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel/Ubuntu-hardy-linux-2-6-24-12-22--arch--x86--ia32--ptrace32-c
http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel.Ubuntu-hardy-linux-2-6-24-12-22--arch--x86--ia32--syscall32-c
http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel.Ubuntu-hardy-linux-2-6-24-12-22--arch--x86--ia32--sys-ia32-c
Thanks.
What Ali said. Also, see the KFV flow chart [1]. If something is not
clear, please ask or tell us. We like our documentation to be correct
and accessible.
About reserved rights: while doing freedom verification I learned that
the statement "All rights reserved" in a copyright statement doesn't
mean anything. It used to be required to make explicit that you want all
rights granted to you by copyright. Nowadays you can just ignore the
seeming contradiction between "All rights reserved" and at the same time
"unreserving" some of those rights with a copyleft license.
Do you know about PFV mode for Emacs [2]? Using it is not a requirement,
but I found that once you get the hang of it (I'm not really an Emacs
user myself) it can significantly speed up the work.
Welcome to the team!
[1] http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel/DocumentingYourWork
[2] http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel/Kfv-script
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