Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756210AbXFOVFa (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:05:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756271AbXFOVFU (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:05:20 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:34759 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756725AbXFOVFS (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:05:18 -0400 To: Al Viro Cc: Bernd Paysan , Paulo Marques , Dmitry Torokhov , Krzysztof Halasa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <200706151014.45383.bernd.paysan@gmx.de> <46727CCF.9030905@grupopie.com> <200706151403.57178.bernd.paysan@gmx.de> <20070615144301.GV21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20070615185208.GX21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:04:33 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20070615185208.GX21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> (Al Viro's message of "Fri\, 15 Jun 2007 19\:52\:08 +0100") 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: 1361 Lines: 34 On Jun 15, 2007, Al Viro wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 03:18:24PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Jun 15, 2007, Al Viro wrote: >> >> > *OR* inherits the default license of the project. >> >> You got any case law for this? Seriously, I could use this for >> FSFLA's IRPF2007-Livre project. >> http://fsfla.org/svnwiki/blogs/lxo/pub/freeing-the-lion > Umm... What other license choices are there? Where does it say that there must be one? > No specific case law, but I'd expect serious [eventual] trouble for > somebody trying to slap some different license in such case. Consider this (to make the freeing-the-lion story short): Jar file with .class files, with a copy of LGPL in the root of the tree. No other license anywhere to be seen. Is it safe to assume the whole thing is under the LGPL? -- 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/