Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:17:24 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net>, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, debian developer <debiandev@gmail.com>,
       david@lang.hm, Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@netone.net.tr>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:45:40AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>...
> > > AFAIK there haven't been any court rulings on this issue, and it could
> > > even be that courts in different countries will decide differently.
> > 
> > Agreed.
> 
> That in theory shouldn't happen as the conventions on copyright are
> supposed to stop that mess occuring.

Is there any way how this would be resolved?

I can easily imagine that two courts, no matter whether they are in the 
same or different countries, would decide differently in grey areas like 
non-GPL modules or the GPLv2 and private keys.

If the two courts are in the same country there's usually a higher court 
above both that can resolve this. But what if let's say the highest 
court in the USA and the highest court in Germany would disagree on such 
a matter?

cu
Adrian

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