Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:32:41 +0200 (CEST)
From: Martin Diehl <lists@mdiehl.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>, Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>,
       "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>, <andersen@codepoet.org>,
       <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd
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On 23 Jul 2003, 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

Sorry, IANAL of course, but IMHO this can't be true:

If the copyright holder puts a note on his code saying it is released 
under version 2 of the GPL then clearly neither the "or any later" nor the 
"not specified" cases apply. And I really fail to see how one could 
argue this were an additional restriction compared to GPL v2 literally!

Btw, you aren't saying linux-kernel would *not* come with a valid GPL, 
according to linux/COPYING, are you?

Martin

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