Re: Linux kernel in breach of GPL ?

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Tue, 3 Nov 1998 10:16:19 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Darren Reed wrote:

> In some mail from Gregory Maxwell, sie said:
> [...]
> > Since there is no other expressed in this file, then it means it's under
> > the same licence as the rest of the archive (as expressed in COPYING).
>
> Hmmm, that's another nit - shouldn't COPYING be called LICENSE or there
> at least be a file called LICENSE pointing to COPYING ? COPYING isn't
> the most intuitive name for a file with the GPL, I'd have thought.

Nope. Copying is correct. The GPL really only limites what you can do when
you are copying the software, it doesn't care much about what you do with
the copy on your computer, so it's really only an issue when you are
copying the program.. :)

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