This is the Slackware COPYRIGHT file.  This file provides documentation
about many of the licenses used by components included in Slackware, as
well as some acknowledgements (some required, some freely given).

This is not meant to be a list of all copyrights and contributors.
For complete information about all copyrights and licenses, refer to
the package documentation installed under /usr/doc/ and to the
included source code.

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The Linux(R) kernel is licensed under the GPL version 2, which can
be found in the file COPYING.  Linus offers his interpretation of how
the GPL applies to the kernel at the top of the COPYING file found in
the kernel sources.  Here's the quote:

  "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.