1*46c4c49dSIbrahim Kanouche NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel 2*46c4c49dSIbrahim Kanouche services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use 3*46c4c49dSIbrahim Kanouche of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". 4*46c4c49dSIbrahim Kanouche Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software 5*46c4c49dSIbrahim Kanouche Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux 6*46c4c49dSIbrahim Kanouche kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it. 7*46c4c49dSIbrahim Kanouche 8*46c4c49dSIbrahim Kanouche Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel 9*46c4c49dSIbrahim Kanouche is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not 10*46c4c49dSIbrahim Kanouche v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. 11*46c4c49dSIbrahim Kanouche 12*46c4c49dSIbrahim Kanouche Linus Torvalds