[parisc-linux] licencing-question... ?

Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Sun, 18 Jul 1999 20:17:18 +0100 (BST)


>   The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
>   included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
> 
> The sticking point could be the copyright & permissions having to

The copyright in code isnt a problem, in supporting docs can be an issue.

> documentation if, say, Red Hat sold Red Hat 8.0 for the PA-RISC? 
> Would the user documentation have to include the copyright notice?

What is documentation. Is the web site documentation etc etc.. 

The easiest thing is to get the Utah folks to add "Nothing in this 
license that is shown to be a restriction within the meaning of the GNU
public license shall hold when the code is distributed under the terms
of the GNU public license" or similar.