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

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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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