Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:39:39 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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