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SubjectRe: 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 @@

[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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