Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754469AbXFNSzP (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:55:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751260AbXFNSzE (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:55:04 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:56538 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751191AbXFNSzC (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:55:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:53:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Lennart Sorensen cc: Alexandre Oliva , Daniel Hazelton , 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 In-Reply-To: <20070614183145.GJ10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Message-ID: References: <200706140236.39394.dhazelton@enter.net> <200706140429.11049.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070614183145.GJ10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1525 Lines: 39 On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > 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. Where did that GPLv1.1 nonsense come from? There is no GPLv1.1 code in the tree. By the time I selected the GPL for the kernel license, the GPLv1.1 had long since been discontinued. The kernel was *never* GPLv1.1-only compatible. That's just total nonsense. There was indeed a kernel license before the GPLv2, but it wasn't the GPL at all, it was my own made-up thing. Appended here, for those who are too lazy to actually look up and check the original Linux-0.01 announcement. Linus --- This kernel is (C) 1991 Linus Torvalds, but all or part of it may be redistributed provided you do the following: - Full source must be available (and free), if not with the distribution then at least on asking for it. - Copyright notices must be intact. (In fact, if you distribute only parts of it you may have to add copyrights, as there aren't (C)'s in all files.) Small partial excerpts may be copied without bothering with copyrights. - You may not distibute this for a fee, not even "handling" costs. - 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/