Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270218AbTGWMCw (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:02:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270219AbTGWMCw (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:02:52 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:51677 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S270218AbTGWMCv (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:02:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:17:50 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Alan Cox Cc: Andre Hedrick , "Adam J. Richter" , andersen@codepoet.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd Message-ID: <20030723121750.GC26422@fs.tum.de> References: <200307230512.h6N5CXQ10468@adam.yggdrasil.com> <20030723090847.GZ26422@fs.tum.de> <1058956149.5520.10.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030723105146.GB26422@fs.tum.de> <1058960631.5520.22.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1058960631.5520.22.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1430 Lines: 37 On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:43:52PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 11:51, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > v2 or later. The GPL only permits "any version" or "n or later". > > > This implicitely says that if the version of the GPL is specified it's > > fixed. > > It says you may use "this or any later version" or you may not specify. > It doesn't permit you to specify "this version alone". See the no > additional restrictions clause "If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation." IANAL and I'm not a native English speaker. >From my understanding, this implicitely says that if the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and no "any later version", the version is fixed. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/