Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750989AbWA0Nj5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:39:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751048AbWA0Nj5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:39:57 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:31149 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750987AbWA0Nj5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:39:57 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:39:39 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Simon Oosthoek Cc: Linus Torvalds , "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" , Kyle Moffett , Marc Perkel , "Jeff V. Merkey" , Patrick McLean , Stephen Hemminger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders Message-ID: <20060127133939.GU27946@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> <43D9F9F9.5060501@ti-wmc.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43D9F9F9.5060501@ti-wmc.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1018 Lines: 20 On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:46:17AM +0100, Simon Oosthoek wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some > > individual files are licenceable under v3, but not the kernel in > >general. > > I believe that if v2 and v3 turn out to be incompatible, it would be > quite hard to rationalise v3+ licensed files inside the kernel. So when > people want their code to be in the kernel and still be v3+ compatible, > they should probably dual license it, or include a specific section > saying that the code can be licensed under v2 only if in the context of > the Linux kernel. Bzzert. "GPLv2 only in the context of the Linux kernel" is incompatible with GPLv2 and means that resulting kernel is impossible to distribute. - 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/