Hi,
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 08:57:57AM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
you can include it by reference, see drivers/net:
Copyright 1993 United States Government as represented by theDirector, National Security Agency. This software may only be used and distributed according to the terms of the GNU General Public License as modified by SRC, incorporated herein by reference. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The key part
if it's good enough for the NSA ...
Hm, I don't really understand what the issue is here. I've never seen this "incorporated herein by reference" being used, but I guess it's not better or worse than a single line such as
This code is distributed without warranty under the GPL v2 (see COPYING)
which we have in the code already, in a few places.
IMHO the clearest and most common header is the full 10-line or so version I posted.
Disk space is cheap, cut'n'pasting is fast, so I don't see a reason to not use it...
Uwe.