Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:34:24 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Carlo Wood wrote: > > But then the paragraph from COPYING kicks in, reading:
Read the COPYING file more closely, and realize that "the Program" has always specified a version number of this license.
It used to include it just by virtue of having the COPYING file *itself* be included (and that's v2), but since some people felt that was unclear, the COPYING file has this language pretty visibly at the top:
Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
> Any, 'any version' probably includes version 3 as well.
Not for the kernel. Exactly because the kernel _does_ specify the version. So the sequence you quoted is a non-issue.
In other words: any file that does not *explicitly* say that it's "v2 or later" is v2 only.
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