Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756580Ab3EVQ3k (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 May 2013 12:29:40 -0400 Received: from 14.mo4.mail-out.ovh.net ([46.105.40.29]:53502 "EHLO mo4.mail-out.ovh.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755803Ab3EVQ3j (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 May 2013 12:29:39 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 301 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 22 May 2013 12:29:39 EDT Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:13:29 +0200 From: "Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli" To: "luke.leighton" Cc: Ian Stirling , legal@lists.gpl-violations.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List X-Ovh-Mailout: 178.32.228.4 (mo4.mail-out.ovh.net) Subject: Re: Would like to form a pool of Linux copyright holders for faster GPL enforcement against Anthrax Kernels Message-ID: <20130522181329.234f43f0@m4a785t-m.lan> In-Reply-To: References: <51972CAF.3060802@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.18; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Ovh-Tracer-Id: 17209943028024704593 X-Ovh-Remote: 87.5.240.193 (host193-240-dynamic.5-87-r.retail.telecomitalia.it) X-Ovh-Local: 213.186.33.20 (ns0.ovh.net) X-OVH-SPAMSTATE: OK X-OVH-SPAMSCORE: -100 X-OVH-SPAMCAUSE: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrfeeigedrtdehucetufdoteggodetrfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucfqggfjnecuuegrihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecusecvtfgvtghiphhivghnthhsucdlqddutddtmd X-Spam-Check: DONE|U 0.5/N X-VR-SPAMSTATE: OK X-VR-SPAMSCORE: -100 X-VR-SPAMCAUSE: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrfeeigedrtdehucetufdoteggodetrfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucfqggfjnecuuegrihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecusecvtfgvtghiphhivghnthhsucdlqddutddtmd Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 768 Lines: 17 On Sun, 19 May 2013 11:57:15 +0100 "luke.leighton" 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). Denis. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/