[Arm-netbook] "allwinner's A10" codenamed "sun4i crane", linux kernel v2.6.36 patch available

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton luke.leighton at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 11:58:55 GMT 2011


i'm just doing a diff on 2.6.36 and 2.6.36-android (yes the Kconfig
files are there etc) but there's this "wtf???" in the patch.

i trust that this is _not_ normal practice for android to go removing
the GPL license from linux kernel releases.


diff -Naur linux-2.6.36/COPYING linux-2.6.36-android/COPYING
--- linux-2.6.36/COPYING        2011-11-10 16:49:40.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.36-android/COPYING        1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,356 +0,0 @@
-
-   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
- services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
- of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
- Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software
- Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux
- kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it.
-
- Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel
- is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not
- v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
-
-                       Linus Torvalds
-
-----------------------------------------
-
-                   GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
-                      Version 2, June 1991



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