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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:38:16 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: ST5481 USB ISDN modem in kernel 2.2.x
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:38:17AM +0400, Lunar wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Solar Designer wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 03:58:07PM +0400, Lunar wrote:
> > > The Kernel 2.4.x have more bad strings, so as :
> > >
> > > Copyright (c) International Business Machines Corp., 2001 This program is
> > > free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
> > > the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
> > > Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
> > > version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> > > but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> > > MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
> > > Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the
> > > GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the
> > > Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
> > > 02111-1307, USA. Author: Dipankar Sarma (Based on a Dynix/ptx
> > > implementation by Paul Mckenney
> >
> > I don't understand what is so bad about those copyright notices and
> > what you're trying to say by it.
>
> IMHO the kernel 2.6.x not include more codes from SCO development ;-)
I still don't get it. There's no mention of SCO in the copyright
notices you've quoted and I have no problem with SCO (Caldera) or
anyone else owning copyright on a part of Linux kernel as long as
they've already released that part under GNU GPL.
I feel that you're missing something.
--
Alexander Peslyak <solar@...nwall.com>
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