Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754372AbXFNRQ3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:16:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753970AbXFNRQF (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:16:05 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.235]:12903 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752625AbXFNRQC (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:16:02 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AhvY+u0vlDjiuQZQiEEpZIjTP8qduGuZa4JxVhe5hERvIhYsxyRB1mIbH9zFXJk1EjaUUkKe63dGmfaTCnCFlwAWX6NL2OkSy64tmlMy/PiCRzHCpAZFe4GyIZK7K8l8pjE0C8pmbh2MkPhDh3mdrqIMu8CUuCVxgEAUgvKH25c= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:16:01 -0400 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" To: "Al Viro" Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Cc: "Bernd Paysan" , "Krzysztof Halasa" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070614170902.GQ21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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> <20070614170902.GQ21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1123 Lines: 27 On 6/14/07, Al Viro wrote: > 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... > Undoubtedly. I was just responding to neet to contact multiple authors point. -- Dmitry - 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/