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    SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
    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 ;)

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