Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270219AbTGWMyW (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:54:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270244AbTGWMyW (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:54:22 -0400 Received: from crosslink-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.254]:40183 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270219AbTGWMyV (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:54:21 -0400 Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd From: Alan Cox To: Martin Diehl Cc: Adrian Bunk , Andre Hedrick , "Adam J. Richter" , andersen@codepoet.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1058965063.5516.41.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 23 Jul 2003 13:57:44 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1371 Lines: 30 On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 13:32, Martin Diehl wrote: > 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! If the copyright holder is not permitted to make such a restriction and use the existing code then yes. > Btw, you aren't saying linux-kernel would *not* come with a valid GPL, > according to linux/COPYING, are you? The kernel is under GPL. I'm not sure what Linus scribblings make change if anything. I understand why Linus did it "I dont want the FSF doing something silly" and also why the FSF did it "so we can fix the license". Ultimately it makes little difference, Linus is perfectly entitled to refuse to add anything that doesn't allow GPLv2 use to his kernel tree. GPLv2 only effectively means your code becomes non-free if a flaw is found in that GPL revision, and nobody can fix it for 70 years so its an awkward trade off I suspect this is getting offtopic 8) - 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/