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diff --git a/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst b/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst index c3d0270bbfb3..2c93caea069f 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ include: are cloudy at best; quite a few kernel copyright holders believe that most binary-only modules are derived products of the kernel and that, as a result, their distribution is a violation of the GNU General Public - license (about which more will be said below). Your author is not a + License (about which more will be said below). Your author is not a lawyer, and nothing in this document can possibly be considered to be legal advice. The true legal status of closed-source modules can only be determined by the courts. But the uncertainty which haunts those modules @@ -251,12 +251,12 @@ there is no prospect of a migration to version 3 of the GPL in the foreseeable future. It is imperative that all code contributed to the kernel be legitimately -free software. For that reason, code from anonymous (or pseudonymous) -contributors will not be accepted. All contributors are required to "sign -off" on their code, stating that the code can be distributed with the -kernel under the GPL. Code which has not been licensed as free software by -its owner, or which risks creating copyright-related problems for the -kernel (such as code which derives from reverse-engineering efforts lacking +free software. For that reason, code from contributors without a known +identity or anonymous contributors will not be accepted. All contributors are +required to "sign off" on their code, stating that the code can be distributed +with the kernel under the GPL. Code which has not been licensed as free +software by its owner, or which risks creating copyright-related problems for +the kernel (such as code which derives from reverse-engineering efforts lacking proper safeguards) cannot be contributed. Questions about copyright-related issues are common on Linux development |