Ubuntu reaches out to embarrassed SuSE devs

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Mon Nov 27 10:26:07 UTC 2006


Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 14:21, Ian Malone wrote:
>>> That would be an interesting challenge.  Does the modification
>>> that Linus added to the copyright have the same weight as
>>> the GPL in applying to everything subsequently added?
>>>
>> ? The code is covered by GPL 2.
> 
> Beg your pardon, but the COPYING file included with the
> last kernel source I saw (admittedly a 2.4.x...) was
> not the same as a stock GPL 2 and points out that programs
> that interface with kernel system calls are not
> derived works.
> 

Pardon granted ;)  If that's the licence you make
and submit changes under then that's the one you're
bound by.

-- 
imalone




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