Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756792AbXFOAgU (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:36:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752753AbXFOAgM (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:36:12 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:57870 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751465AbXFOAgL (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:36:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:34:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Carlo Wood cc: Alan Cox , Alexandre Oliva , Adrian Bunk , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, 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: <20070615000232.GB9463@alinoe.com> Message-ID: References: <20070614025640.GQ3588@stusta.de> <9578.1181793617@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20070614152034.GS3588@stusta.de> <20070614231812.GA9463@alinoe.com> <20070615003919.1abfb155@the-village.bc.nu> <20070615000232.GB9463@alinoe.com> 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: 1169 Lines: 31 On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Carlo Wood wrote: > > But then the paragraph from COPYING kicks in, reading: Read the COPYING file more closely, and realize that "the Program" has always specified a version number of this license. It used to include it just by virtue of having the COPYING file *itself* be included (and that's v2), but since some people felt that was unclear, the COPYING file has this language pretty visibly at the top: Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. > Any, 'any version' probably includes version 3 as well. Not for the kernel. Exactly because the kernel _does_ specify the version. So the sequence you quoted is a non-issue. In other words: any file that does not *explicitly* say that it's "v2 or later" is v2 only. Linus - 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/