Re: e1000 driver contains private copy of GPL... and modified one,too

From: Auke Kok
Date: Mon Aug 28 2006 - 12:03:15 EST


Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!

Okay, so modifications are not major: different address of free
software foundation, completely different formatting, some characters
added, and some characters removed. It no longer contains Linus'
clarifications.

--- LICENSE 2006-07-21 05:42:27.000000000 +0200
+++ ../../../COPYING 2006-07-21 05:42:27.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,128 +1,141 @@

[snip]


Now... I believe nothing evil is going on, but having two slightly
different copies of GPL in one source seems wrong, can we get rid of
e1000 one?

I'll ask around here and see if this doesn't make people cringe. Meanwhile Pavel should examine sound/oss/COPYING and arch/sparc/lib/COPYING.LIB too :)

Cheers,

Auke
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