Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966584AbXIBNBF (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 09:01:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965071AbXIBNAv (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 09:00:51 -0400 Received: from fresno.net.uniovi.es ([156.35.11.2]:56088 "EHLO FRESNO.NET.UNIOVI.ES" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965065AbXIBNAt (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 09:00:49 -0400 Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:00:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Igor Sobrado Subject: Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing In-reply-to: <20070902134612.28a88761@the-village.bc.nu> To: Alan Cox Cc: Adrian Bunk , "Constantine A. Murenin" , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <200709010140.l811eq9H005896@cvs.openbsd.org> <46D99FB7.6030505@garzik.org> <20070901205457.GK9260@stusta.de> <20070902113638.78fbd202@the-village.bc.nu> <20070902115041.GM16016@stusta.de> <20070902134612.28a88761@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1586 Lines: 34 On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Alan Cox wrote: >> 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. So, under a dual-licensed BSD/GPL code the latter license allows a developer to remove the GPL license itself and release a single-licensed BSD code if other parties want to do it? > 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". I would assume a file as a boundary of a work in the case that file is under different licensing terms to the rest of the software package. On a lot of software packages different modules are covered under different licensing terms. We can choose what license terms we will honor; however, we do not have the ability to remove the licensing terms we do not like. Igor. - 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/