Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762027AbXFJVPd (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:15:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754343AbXFJVPY (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:15:24 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:58930 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751399AbXFJVPY (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:15:24 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: James Bruce Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:15:04 -0400 Message-ID: <466C69D8.7030401@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <18026.16739.228277.938421@notabene.brown> <20070609071231.GL2649@lug-owl.de> <466BB9B0.5030908@netone.net.tr> <466BCBBC.90305@netone.net.tr> <466C0901.4000405@netone.net.tr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Cc: Tarkan Erimer , debian developer , "david@lang.hm" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu, greg@kroah.com X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-7-156.dsl.telerama.com User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070329) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1108 Lines: 18 Linus Torvalds wrote: [ snip ] > I consider dual-licensing unlikely (and technically quite hard), but at > least _possible_ in theory. I have yet to see any actual *reasons* for > licensing under the GPLv3, though. [ snip ] One thing that would make that easier in the future is if contributers at least started to dual-license their submissions. I.e. if instead of "GPL version 2", one could say "GPL version 2 or GPL version 3". It isn't the same thing as the problematic "GPL version 2 or later", because the developer is not agreeing to an unseen license (GPLv4, etc). What it does do is make it easier to move to GPLv3 a few years from now, if that is decided then, as a significant fraction of the code will already be GPLv3 compatible. That way, if a reason is ever found to move to v3, at least some of the work will already be done. - Jim Bruce - 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/