Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:44:36 -0700 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] gcc 3.5 fixes |
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I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see why you'd want the copyright notice in the executable:
* It's probably the source text that you're intending to copyright, not the binary executable bits.
* If you look, I believe you will find that there are almost no other copyright strings in the vmlinux executable.
* By what right can I copy or distribute a kernel built with this string in it? The comments in zlib.h let us use the source, but I don't see any authorization to use the resulting executable bits on which this static copyright string seems to assert copyright.
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