hello, El Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:56:16 +0200 "Ramagudi Naziir" <naziirr@xxxxxxxxx> ha escrit: > Hello again. > > Can you please explain to me what does the Copyright (C) line > in the kernel code means ? it means that this code was written by anyone. the copyright holder(s) is the only person(s) who can license the code as GPL or whatever (this is valid for any software, book, song...) > After all, it is GPL and does not belong to anyone... no, when something doesn't belong to anyone is 'public domain' (see creative commons webpage for more information about differences between public domain and free licenses) > So why do code authors write their name besides the Copyright (C) > prefix ? i like to see the name of people who wrote code that i'm using, otherwise you cannot give thanks for it... see you > > Thank You All > naziir > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
