Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966376AbXIBMiQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 08:38:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965713AbXIBMh4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 08:37:56 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:55683 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965407AbXIBMhz (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 08:37:55 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 13:46:12 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Igor Sobrado Cc: Adrian Bunk , "Constantine A. Murenin" , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing Message-ID: <20070902134612.28a88761@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <200709010140.l811eq9H005896@cvs.openbsd.org> <46D99FB7.6030505@garzik.org> <20070901205457.GK9260@stusta.de> <20070902113638.78fbd202@the-village.bc.nu> <20070902115041.GM16016@stusta.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 975 Lines: 20 > So, a multi-licensed file remains multi-licensed except when all authors > agree about a change in the licensing terms. And it is clear on the BSD Not strictly true. They can either agree to a change and issue one or they can convey to other parties the right to change the terms. The GPL for example does this for version selection. A multi-licensed work (note work not file - don't assume a file is a boundary of a work) which conveys the choice of licence (as some bits of ath5k did) allows a receiving party to choose the licence it wishes. Failing that OpenBSD would have turned itself GPL by adding that file as according to your argument "it must be distributed under *all* these licensing terms concurrently". Alan - 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/