Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755255AbXFNSby (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:31:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751260AbXFNSbq (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:31:46 -0400 Received: from caffeine.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:54734 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751223AbXFNSbq (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:31:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:31:45 -0400 To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: Daniel Hazelton , Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , debian developer , "david@lang.hm" , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Message-ID: <20070614183145.GJ10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <200706140236.39394.dhazelton@enter.net> <200706140429.11049.dhazelton@enter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 770 Lines: 18 On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:26:30PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > In the program you received under GPLv1. > > Hey, you said there was code under GPLv1.1 in the Linux tree. Then, > there should be a copy of GPLv1.1 in there, otherwise AFAICT the > distribution of that code is copyright infringement. IANAL. So now the copy of the GPL v2 isn't good enough for the GPLv1.1 code? Maybe that code said 'or later' in the license and hence someone added it to a GPL v2 project since that sounds perfectly OK. -- Len Sorensen - 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/