Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964924AbWAZWQq (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:16:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964925AbWAZWQq (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:16:46 -0500 Received: from 8.ctyme.com ([69.50.231.8]:52878 "EHLO darwin.ctyme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964924AbWAZWQp (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:16:45 -0500 Message-ID: <43D94A4B.8060902@perkel.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:16:43 -0800 From: Marc Perkel User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Chase Venters , "linux-os \\(Dick Johnson\\)" , Kyle Moffett , "Jeff V. Merkey" , 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1065 Lines: 29 Linus Torvalds wrote: > No. You think "v2 or later" is the default. It's not. The _default_ is to > not allow conversion. > > Conversion isn't going to happen. > > Linus > > Just for clarification. What you are saying is that anyone who insists on contributing to the kernel under GPLv3 - that code would be prohibited from being included in the kernel? That to contribute to the kernel you must contribute under the terms presently in place? I'm just asking for clarification. I don't have a GPLv3 opinion yet since it's a changing document. But I do see a need for a consistent licensing of the components of Linux to avoid confusion and I'm worried that if any GPLv3 gets in then it will be all GPLv3 so you would have to prohibity that if you are going to stop Linux from becoming GPLv3 by default. - 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/