Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756052AbXFPTkK (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:40:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754107AbXFPTj7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:39:59 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:33028 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751601AbXFPTj6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:39:58 -0400 To: Sanjoy Mahajan Cc: Linus Torvalds , Carlo Wood , Alexandre Oliva , Jeremy Maitin-Shepard , 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: From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:39:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Sanjoy Mahajan's message of "Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:01:58 +0100") Message-ID: 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: 737 Lines: 17 Sanjoy Mahajan writes: > So you have to give recipients the license text from a particular > version of the GPL. To make that the only version unde which the work > is licensed, you have to add something like "Licensed under the > GPLv2". Otherwise sec. 9 says that you offer the work under any > version of the GPL, and the licensee can take his or her pick -- even > using v1 (!). That's exactly what I meant by "not specifying the version". -- Krzysztof Halasa - 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/