Erik Mouw wrote:
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 09:56:16PM +0200, Ramagudi Naziir wrote:
Can you please explain to me what does the Copyright (C) line
in the kernel code means ?
After all, it is GPL and does not belong to anyone...
No, that's not true. The code belongs to whoever wrote that particular
part. GPL licensed code is not "public domain" code.
Ramagudi, you may want to take a look at http://gpl-violations.org/
to see what happens to companies that distribute GPL programs without
following the conditions set out in the license.
Using GPL code in products that you ship to your customers does not
cost money, but you do have the obligation to give your customers
the same freedom you got, by giving them the source code to the GPL
programs that you ship.
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