1 NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel 2 services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use 3 of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". 4 Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software 5 Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux 6 kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it. 7 8 Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel 9 is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not 10 v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. 11 12 Linus Torvalds 13