Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

From: Richard Knutsson
Date: Sun Dec 04 2005 - 10:20:48 EST


Matthias Andree wrote:

As I say, these aren't licensed for inclusion into the kernel, they bear
a (C) Copyright notice and "All rights reserved."


In the 2.6.15-rc5 kernel we find:
data@amazon linux-2.6.15-rc5]$ find . -name *.[chS] | xargs grep -n "All rights reserved" | wc -l
932
[data@amazon linux-2.6.15-rc5]$ find . -name *.[chS] | xargs grep -n "Copyright" | wc -l
15083

But I do wonder how copyright and GPL can co-exist. Do the copyright holder own the changes anybody else does to the code?
Anyone care to explain?

Thanks
Richard Knutsson

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