Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754271AbXFNRJe (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:09:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751074AbXFNRJG (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:09:06 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:39080 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751063AbXFNRJE (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:09:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:09:02 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Bernd Paysan , Krzysztof Halasa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Message-ID: <20070614170902.GQ21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <200706141023.21624.bernd.paysan@gmx.de> <20070614153935.GO21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> <200706141832.58526.bernd.paysan@gmx.de> <20070614164124.GP21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 951 Lines: 20 On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:01:20PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > >Multiple authors == need permission from each author with enough > >contributions to that file to make the contributions in question > >copyrightable. > > > >And in my case (and case of gregkh, and...) that would be considerably > >more than a couple of files. Really. > > I would expect that if you contribute to a file that explicitely says > "GPL v2 or later" and you do not change that wording then you agree > GPL v2 or later for that particular contribution. So for example > drivers/net/plip.c could be changed to GPL v3 even though you > contributed to it. After you exclude such cases it's still more than a couple of files... - 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/