From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Organization: Boundaries Unlimited
To: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:51:00 -0600
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On Sunday 04 December 2005 09:25, Richard Knutsson wrote:
> But I do wonder how copyright and GPL can co-exist. Do the copyright
> holder own the changes anybody else does to the code?
> Anyone care to explain?

The GPL is a copyright license.  A license is a permission statement, ala "you 
can pitch a tent on my lawn as long as you don't leave trash all over it".  
Doesn't change ownership of the lawn, just says what you can do with the lawn 
somebody else owns, and it can have strings attached.

> Thanks
> Richard Knutsson

Rob
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