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    SubjectRe: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders
    On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:00:53PM +0100, Simon Oosthoek wrote:
    > If I'd want to contribute code to the kernel, I'd have to comply with
    > the license of the kernel, which is v2 of the GPL. If I would actually
    > prefer my code to be licensed under v3 or higher, I'd have to specify
    > that my code is only licensed under v2 for the kernel to humour Linus
    > Torvalds and respect the license of the kernel, but in all other ways
    > the code is used, I only grant a license to copy under the conditions of
    > the GPL v3 or higher. I don't see why that would affect the distribution
    > of the kernel at all.

    "GPLv2 only for the kernel" is a different license than "GPLv2" and is
    incompatible with GPLv2.

    OG.

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