On Jun 5, 2009, crap0101 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, looking in the linux tree i've found this file > `/include/linux/mroute.h` > I think it's not free software because its licence and it should be > removed from the kernel.
If there isn't a license there, it should be taken as under GPLv2. If this header is a derivative of the mroute code, under copyright law, then there might be a need to apply the terms of the mrouted license to it, which would indeed make it non-Free Software AFAICT. There are other ways by which mroute.h could have been created, however, that wouldn't set this requirement. Do you have any evidence that it was created in a way that would make it a derivative work under copyright law, rather than under any of the copyright exeptions (e.g. interface only) or clean-room procedures to ensure it isn't? It would be desirable to check the signed-off-by trail of this file and check how it was created and contributed before declaring it non-Free. Would you be willing to do that? Thanks in advance, -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
