Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756084AbXFJNft (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:35:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753567AbXFJNfm (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:35:42 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:51538 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753338AbXFJNfl (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:35:41 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:40:23 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Neil Brown Cc: Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Message-ID: <20070610144023.1cca3ae4@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <18027.50727.190221.80822@notabene.brown> References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <18026.16739.228277.938421@notabene.brown> <466BBB0B.4050303@netone.net.tr> <18027.50727.190221.80822@notabene.brown> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 781 Lines: 14 > But I think this is largely academic. You only need a fairly small > number of fairly significant contributors to say "no" and the rest of > the process would be pointless. And at last count, the number of > kernel people who were not keen on GPLv3 was fairly high. Of course > no-one knows for certain yet what the final GPLv3 will be, and maybe > lots of people would change their mind when it comes out. You can take a fair bet someone will say no, or much more likely they or whoever inherited their copyright will say $50,000 - 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/