Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 09:12:31 +0200
From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
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On Sat, 2007-06-09 15:57:55 +1000, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> On Saturday June 9, tarkan@netone.net.tr wrote:
> > As we know the forthcoming GPL V3 will be not compatible with the GPL V=
2=20
> > and Linux Kernel is GPL V2 only.
> > So, another point is, which is previously mentioned by Linus and others=
,=20
> > that if it is decided to upgrade the Linux Kernel's License to GPL V3,=
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> > it is needed the permission of all the maintainers permission who=20
> > contributed to the Linux Kernel and there are a lot of lost or dead=20
> > maintainers. Which makes it impossible to get all the maintainers'=20
> > permission.
>=20
> You don't need the permission of maintainers.  You need the permission
> of copyright owners.  The two groups overlap, but are not the same.
> Dead people cannot own anything, even copyright.  Their estate
> probably can.  I don't think it is theoretically impossible to get
> everyone's permission, though it may be quite close to practically
> impossible.=20

And the next question is: How much copyright does a copyright owner
own?  For example, think of drivers written by one person, but a small
number of lines changed here and there by others to adopt the code to
new APIs.  Ask them all, I think?

MfG, JBG

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