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    SubjectRe: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders
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    On Jan 25, 2006, at 14:24:13, Marc Perkel wrote:
    > Is it possible to have Linux be mostly GPL3 with parts of it GPL2?
    > Or is that just too insane to deal with?

    Well given that parts of the kernel are GPLv2-only, other parts are
    GPLv2+, other parts are GPL/BSD, etc, I can't see how somebody using
    a GPLv3-only or GPLv3+ license for some other part would be
    problematic. If anything, the multiple licensing provides additional
    code protection; we get the advantages of all the licenses, but if
    any one license is found to be invalid, it does not break the
    protection of the body of code itself.

    Cheers,
    Kyle Moffett

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