Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Nov 2004 16:08:12 -0500 | From | Ryan Anderson <> | Subject | Re: Possible GPL infringement in Broadcom-based routers |
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On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 04:49:17PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > For the kernel, Linus has clarified the license of the kernel (it is _not_ > > vanilla GPL), see COPYING. And one would assume that if somebody > > contributes voluntarily, they are agreeing to the licence... > > the kernel is under the vanilla GPL, not only did Linus say so > repeatedly, also it contains code that IS under the vanilla GPL. > (eg taken from other projects etc etc).
Well, that's not *quite* accurate.
Vanilla GPL tends to be "version 2 or any later version", whereas Linux is distributed *only* under version 2.
(Yes, rather nitpicky, and I'm not disagreeing with you in any meaningful way - just trying to make sure archive searches find the correct statements over and over again.)
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