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

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Date:	Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:33:23 -0700
From:	Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
CC:	Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>, jakub@...hat.com,
	davem@...hat.com, kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, john.ronciak@...el.com,
	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com
Subject: Re: e1000 driver contains private copy of GPL... and modified one,
 too

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 @@
> 
>>> 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 :)
> 
> Hehe, okay, going after them.

After discussing this with John and Jesse we found that we want to do an update 
for all our drivers and fix the issue. I will send a patch later out that 
removes the LICENSE file and changes the header of the involved files. I will 
most likely have to do this for e100 and ixgb as well, so it will come a bit 
later than right away.

Thanks Pavel.

Cheers,

Auke
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