Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932387AbWAZSSj (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:18:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932391AbWAZSSi (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:18:38 -0500 Received: from master.soleranetworks.com ([67.137.28.188]:41422 "EHLO master.soleranetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932387AbWAZSSi (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:18:38 -0500 Message-ID: <43D8F893.5010109@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:28:03 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Jakma Cc: Linus Torvalds , Chase Venters , "linux-os \\(Dick Johnson\\)" , Kyle Moffett , Marc Perkel , Patrick McLean , Stephen Hemminger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders References: <43D114A8.4030900@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20060120111103.2ee5b531@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> <43D13B2A.6020504@cs.ubishops.ca> <43D7C780.6080000@perkel.com> <43D7B20D.7040203@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43D7B5C4.5040601@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43D7D05D.7030101@perkel.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 694 Lines: 29 Paul Jakma wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> In other words: the _default_ license strategy is always just the >> particular version of the GPL that accompanies a project. If you want >> to license a program under _any_ later version of the GPL, you have >> to state so explicitly. Linux never did. > > > That's not what section 9 seems to say. The default is "any version > you like". Right. :-) Jeff > > regards, - 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/