Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:20:19 +0100 | From | Paulo Marques <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:01:20PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >>> Multiple authors == need permission from each author with enough >>> contributions to that file to make the contributions in question >>> copyrightable. >>> >>> And in my case (and case of gregkh, and...) that would be considerably >>> more than a couple of files. Really. >> I would expect that if you contribute to a file that explicitely says >> "GPL v2 or later" and you do not change that wording then you agree >> GPL v2 or later for that particular contribution. So for example >> drivers/net/plip.c could be changed to GPL v3 even though you >> contributed to it. > > After you exclude such cases it's still more than a couple of files...
FWIW,
$ find -name "*.c" | xargs grep "any later version" | wc -l 3138 $ find -name "*.c" | wc -l 9482
Watching the output of the first grep without "wc -l" shows that, although it is not 100% accurate, it is still ok just to get a rough estimate.
So yes, ~6300 files are definitely more than a couple ;)
-- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com
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