Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:19:38 -0400 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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On 6/15/07, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > O> GPL itself does not. But the author(s) may when they specify "any > > later version", "dual GPL/BSD", etc. In this case (IMHO) distributor > > in fact relicenses the code and may reduce license to sipmply BSD or > > simply GPL, or "GPL v3 from now on". To "restore" license you would > > need to go upstream and get the code from there. > > I don't see anything in the GPL that permits a redistributor to change > the licence a piece of code is distributed under. If my code is GPL v2 or > later you cannot take away the "or later" unless explicitly granted > powers by the author to vary the licence. > > What you most certainly can do is modify it and decide your modifications > are GPLv3 only thus creating a derived work which is GPLv3 only. However > anyone receiving your modified version and reverting the modifications is > back at v2 or later. >
Yes, I agree. When I am saying "distributor" it is someone like RedHat or TiVO who do modify the code, not merely use it in ints original form.
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