Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757604AbXFOAHy (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:07:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751864AbXFOAHe (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:07:34 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net ([63.240.77.83]:61888 "EHLO sccrmhc13.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751099AbXFOAHd (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:07:33 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 301 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:07:33 EDT From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: Linus Torvalds , Sean , Adrian Bunk , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Daniel Hazelton , Alan Cox , 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: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <200706132140.13490.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070614020827.GO3588@stusta.de> <200706132243.14651.dhazelton@enter.net> <20070614025640.GQ3588@stusta.de> <9578.1181793617@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20070614152034.GS3588@stusta.de> <20070614131409.9a5800dc.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:02:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Alexandre Oliva's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 20\:20\:19 -0300") Message-ID: <87r6oeytin.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 933 Lines: 25 Alexandre Oliva writes: > On Jun 14, 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >>> >>> Hmm... So, if someone takes one of the many GPLv2+ contributions and >>> makes improvements under GPLv3+, you're going to make an effort to >>> accept them, rather than rejecting them because they're under the >>> GPLv3? >> You *cannot* make GPLv3-only contributions to the kernel. > I can make improvements to GPLv2+ files under GPLv3 (or rather will, > after GPLv3 is published). You can do that, but you won't be able to distribute those changes along with the rest of the kernel. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard - 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/