Re: Linux kernel complete licence check, Q.0 - Q.10

2002-11-18 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Giacomo Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Q.1: No copyright, no author name, no license notice! [Frequent in Makefile, header files and simple source files] The licence will be the license in COPYING at the main dir? thus default GNU GPL and only GPL version 2, right? I believe

Re: Linux kernel complete licence check, Q.11

2002-11-18 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Giacomo Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] As a special exception, if other files instantiate templates or use macros or inline functions from these files, or you compile these files and link them with other works to produce a work based on these files, these files do not by themselves

Re: Linux kernel complete licence check, Q.12

2002-11-18 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Giacomo Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Q.12: linux/fs/reiserfs/README: Source code files that contain the phrase licensing governed by reiserfs/README are governed files throughout this file. Governed files are licensed under the GPL. The portions of them owned by Hans Reiser, or

Re: Linux kernel complete licence check, Q.0 - Q.10

2002-11-18 Thread David Turner
Q.6: : /* inflate.c -- Not copyrighted 1992 by Mark Adler : version c10p1, 10 January 1993 */ Not copyrighted == public domain? In practise, yes. In theory, not copyrighted is nonsense as copyright is not a verb, nor an action that someone applies to the code. A court

Re: Linux kernel complete licence check, Q.12

2002-11-18 Thread David Turner
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 10:08, Henning Makholm wrote: All portions of governed files not labeled otherwise are owned by Hans Reiser, and by adding your code to it, widely distributing it to others or sending us a patch, and leaving the sentence in stating that licensing is governed by the

Re: Linux kernel complete licence check, Q.12

2002-11-18 Thread Jakob Bohm
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:54:27PM -0500, David Turner wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 10:08, Henning Makholm wrote: All portions of governed files not labeled otherwise are owned by Hans Reiser, and by adding your code to it, widely distributing it to others or sending us a patch, and