Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 May 2013 13:56:17 -0400 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: Would like to form a pool of Linux copyright holders for faster GPL enforcement against Anthrax Kernels |
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On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 06:13:29PM +0200, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: > On Sun, 19 May 2013 11:57:15 +0100 "luke.leighton" <luke.leighton@gmail.com> wrote: > > so. could someone please inform me what the procedure is: is it as > > simple as submitting a patch? > I think so(however I'm not a kernel maintainer), > I found that(however the patch is really old): > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=798b6b19d7a4b6e1ea5340ec8b3b92811e05b81b > So the idea would be to send a patch or series of patches to relicense > your code under the GPLv2+(GPLv2 or later).
Only if you own the copyright on all of the lines of code of the file in question.
- Ted
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