| NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel | |
| services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use | |
| of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". | |
| Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software | |
| Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux | |
| kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it. | |
| Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel | |
| is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not | |
| v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. | |
| Linus Torvalds |