Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932398AbWAZS06 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:26:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932396AbWAZS06 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:26:58 -0500 Received: from mail.sbb.co.yu ([82.117.194.22]:24896 "EHLO smtp.sbb.co.yu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932395AbWAZS0z (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:26:55 -0500 From: Filip Brcic Organization: ETF Beograd To: Paul Jakma Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:25:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: Linus Torvalds , Chase Venters , "linux-os \\(Dick Johnson\\)" , Kyle Moffett , Marc Perkel , "Jeff V. Merkey" , Patrick McLean , Stephen Hemminger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <43D114A8.4030900@wolfmountaingroup.com> In-Reply-To: X-Face: G%^x?"S~ij}UIkM5Nz.d:nZd>{CC=paKMd=sx=>M}(IcMH=c22>:@TC/#J)/n}dNxzRo)=?utf-8?q?Z=0A=09XVt+=3FSgp=7DYH9=7D=24aeFY3kX=3Ak?=l[.7:E<=?utf-8?q?=5Exlu+Xh=5F=5D=0A=09a0+VN?=(U/pThxl+{rY_V$U5&9WBQ+l+h$sk-I7{#qO6sf MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart49493634.SL3QCkSfF3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200601261925.49433.brcha@users.sourceforge.net> X-SBB-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-SBB-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-SBB-MailScanner-From: brcha@users.sourceforge.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1908 Lines: 56 --nextPart49493634.SL3QCkSfF3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline =D0=94=D0=B0=D0=BD=D0=B0 Thursday 26 January 2006 18:59, Paul Jakma =D1=98= =D0=B5 =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=81=D0=B0=D0=BE(=D0=BB=D0=B0): > 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". That's right, but Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. Linux specifies version GPLv2 and only v2. Therefore, for Linux the GPLv2 i= s=20 the default. =2D-=20 =46ilip Brcic WWWeb: http://purl.org/NET/brcha/home/ Jabber: brcha@kdetalk.net Jabber: brcha@elitesecurity.org Jabber: fbrcic@gmail.com ICQ# 40994923 Yahoo! brcha MSN: brcha@users.sourceforge.net --nextPart49493634.SL3QCkSfF3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iJsDBQBD2RQsiWDX+jAieS9nAgYWAgkB4iYm5ITLXDVUMCrdr3+c/oFBnwYbvJD0 eUythwZUcwNAWvKG/JGEsK0ggleYWrWO5HaXO2Y7rJgYpvrFnfY/mqwCCQHPHO8w r1VTVgN4wLpnuyxZoziAH7O9guelnUPc0de/TNFmMqsc2dZFM6EzQHnpX0h74luR RpAxiXPiD2eZw4HEww== =qQpv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart49493634.SL3QCkSfF3-- - 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/