Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:32:41 +0200 (CEST) | From | Martin Diehl <> | Subject | Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd |
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On 23 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 11:51, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > v2 or later. The GPL only permits "any version" or "n or later". > > > This implicitely says that if the version of the GPL is specified it's > > fixed. > > It says you may use "this or any later version" or you may not specify. > It doesn't permit you to specify "this version alone". See the no > additional restrictions clause
Sorry, IANAL of course, but IMHO this can't be true:
If the copyright holder puts a note on his code saying it is released under version 2 of the GPL then clearly neither the "or any later" nor the "not specified" cases apply. And I really fail to see how one could argue this were an additional restriction compared to GPL v2 literally!
Btw, you aren't saying linux-kernel would *not* come with a valid GPL, according to linux/COPYING, are you?
Martin
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