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SubjectRe: [PATCH] gcc 3.5 fixes
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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