Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755139AbXFNTtT (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:49:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750698AbXFNTtF (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:49:05 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:56453 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754070AbXFNTtE (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:49:04 -0400 To: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) 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 References: <200706140236.39394.dhazelton@enter.net> <200706140429.11049.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070614183145.GJ10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:48:15 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20070614183145.GJ10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (Lennart Sorensen's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 14\:31\:45 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) 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: 1025 Lines: 23 On Jun 14, 2007, lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > 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? If it exists and it's 1.1-only, I believe it wouldn't, but IANAL. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} - 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/