Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754085AbXFNSmZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:42:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751168AbXFNSmS (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:42:18 -0400 Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com ([66.249.90.180]:8622 "EHLO ik-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751102AbXFNSmR (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:42:17 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gnfAeYR8UILQzlMiDgFjAZ7PievBOFNRcoC2+ENI9VwfQYcs8a71rZB3OE647YwsonnOsdwu+i23NnsLhr4ongS4y8le6e8Jffgbh068pTNPyAyy9FK9mfktrYSdY7WtzaqkseDLPBTmhJu6tYtFgPINe/gNpHF6rynPVzhtrDg= Message-ID: <912ec82a0706141142v2a7db410x16f18df16da855c2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:42:16 +0300 From: "Neshama Parhoti" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 In-Reply-To: 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> <200706132304.21984.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070614112329.3645c397@the-village.bc.nu> <20070614103846.GA7902@elte.hu> <20070614182356.GA11828@kroah.com> <4f436aae0706141128y5cfc8e52nb52745dfe8820341@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 896 Lines: 20 Forgive me for a little off-topic question but I have a difficulty to understand a technical issue about this all. The Linux Kernel cannot easily switch licenses because of the large amount of people involved in it (i.e. contributed code on which they have copyright). But many of FSF's GNU projects are similar - for example GCC has contributors from many many companies and individuals, from which I presume there are who might object to GPLv3. So how come they can so easily move to GPLv3 ? Don't they have to have permission from all of those contributors (many of which are Linux companies and distributors who might prefer staying at GPLv2) ? - 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/