Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932327AbWAZWXv (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:23:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932359AbWAZWXu (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:23:50 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:51386 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932327AbWAZWXu (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:23:50 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:23:33 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Marc Perkel Cc: Linus Torvalds , 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 Message-ID: <20060126222333.GT27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <43D13B2A.6020504@cs.ubishops.ca> <43D7C780.6080000@perkel.com> <43D7B20D.7040203@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43D7B5C4.5040601@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43D7D05D.7030101@perkel.com> <43D94A4B.8060902@perkel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43D94A4B.8060902@perkel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 760 Lines: 14 On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 02:16:43PM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: > 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? "terms compatible with those for code already in place". Which is obviously true for any project, since otherwise you end up with result that can not be distributed at all. - 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/