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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:40:48 +0100
From: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders
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El Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:37:28 -0800,
"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> escribi?:

> is offered for inclusion. He cannot, however, change the license on any code
> he did not write. He cannot even grant a license to any code he did not

And he's not doing it, the COPYING file applies for all the code which 
doesn't specifies its own license.


Notice that COPYING has this: "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."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

(IOW, people should care about their own code, but obviously people
usually licenses their code under the same license the project uses,
except some drivers that use a dual-license scheme etc)
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