Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 | From | Alexandre Oliva <> | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:44:40 -0300 |
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On Jun 15, 2007, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:20:19PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> >> So, you see, your statement above, about wanting to be able to use >> other people's improvements, cannot be taken without qualification.
> No. Linus and other Linux kernels might *want* to take other people's > improvements, but thanks to Richard Stallman's choices for GPLv3, they > can *not* legally take other people's improvements without violating > the GPLv3 license.
This argument is backwards. It's because of Linus' choice for GPLv2 that he can't take improvements under the GPLv3.
Had he chosen any other GPLv3-compatible license, he could.
And the same applies to any other incompatible pair of licenses.
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