Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:18:50 +0100 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders |
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:00:53PM +0100, Simon Oosthoek wrote: > If I'd want to contribute code to the kernel, I'd have to comply with > the license of the kernel, which is v2 of the GPL. If I would actually > prefer my code to be licensed under v3 or higher, I'd have to specify > that my code is only licensed under v2 for the kernel to humour Linus > Torvalds and respect the license of the kernel, but in all other ways > the code is used, I only grant a license to copy under the conditions of > the GPL v3 or higher. I don't see why that would affect the distribution > of the kernel at all.
"GPLv2 only for the kernel" is a different license than "GPLv2" and is incompatible with GPLv2.
OG.
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