Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756653AbXFOSqo (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:46:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751909AbXFOSqg (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:46:36 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.232]:1959 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751840AbXFOSqg (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:46:36 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SqOv+1e7PXC85iXwUYn/dXJFTvU1LQeFbngSbJ7nTZRKTdFVoiyDAErTHIvPN/2vtaw/d72ZQD4n4MRBJNTahBRknipu67oujCPaOZeyuvZ54Dbu5oBbRS8yVMypnCRwLtL5Z/M0MhNTsllkUBgEurvQk+A1smhS4VWfMP/W0ec= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:46:35 -0400 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" To: "Alexandre Oliva" Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Cc: "Bernd Paysan" , "Paulo Marques" , "Al Viro" , "Krzysztof Halasa" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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> <200706151014.45383.bernd.paysan@gmx.de> <46727CCF.9030905@grupopie.com> <200706151403.57178.bernd.paysan@gmx.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1296 Lines: 34 On 6/15/07, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 15, 2007, "Dmitry Torokhov" wrote: > > > On 6/15/07, Bernd Paysan wrote: > >> On Friday 15 June 2007 13:49, Paulo Marques wrote: > >> > >> > No, it is not "any version". It is the license specified in COPYING and > >> > nothing else. > >> > >> COPYING says in section 9 that there may be other versions, and if you as > >> author don't specify the version, it's "any version". > > > Please read this sentence over and over until it sinks: > > I believe he was talking about the sentence just after the one you > quoted: > > If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, > you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software > Foundation. > My response to this is that by including an entire copy of specific version of GPL in the release the version number was specified. You can't say that inclusion of copy of GPL is enough to specify class of licenses (all GPL) but not specific version. -- Dmitry - 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/