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    SubjectRe: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders
    On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:46:17AM +0100, Simon Oosthoek wrote:
    > Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > >The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some
    > > individual files are licenceable under v3, but not the kernel in
    > >general.
    >
    > I believe that if v2 and v3 turn out to be incompatible, it would be
    > quite hard to rationalise v3+ licensed files inside the kernel. So when
    > people want their code to be in the kernel and still be v3+ compatible,
    > they should probably dual license it, or include a specific section
    > saying that the code can be licensed under v2 only if in the context of
    > the Linux kernel.

    Bzzert. "GPLv2 only in the context of the Linux kernel" is incompatible
    with GPLv2 and means that resulting kernel is impossible to distribute.
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