On Wed, 22 May 2019, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > I'm also not sure whether I catched all the fancy disclaimer variants, so > there is a good chance that the above 774 instances are just a fraction of > the total damage. I did some deeper inspection and here are the normalized variants of fancy disclaimers bolted onto a GPL reference/notice: I'll work on a better represenation in the next days, but wanted to shared the result. My initial guess of more than 20 is not far off and it took me some massaging - e.g. replacing 'file, module, package' by software to reduce the zoo quite a bit. Without that reduction it's about 40 ... 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