Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:00:30 +0100 | From | "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <> | Subject | Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Al Viro wrote: > >>Bzzert. "GPLv2 only in the context of the Linux kernel" is incompatible >>with GPLv2 and means that resulting kernel is impossible to distribute. > > > Indeed. The GPL (both v2 and v3) disallow restricting usage. > > So certain _code_ can be either v2 or v3 only, but you can't make that > decision based on how the code is used. > > So you can't license, for example, your code "udner the GPL only for the > Linux kernel". Trust me, some companies have actually wanted to do exactly > that - they wanted to distribute their code, but _only_ for the kernel > (and you'd not be allowed to use it for any other GPL'd project). That > just cannot fly. It's either GPL, or it isn't. There's no "GPL with the > following rules".
Not really the same case, but ...
/* * linux/init/version.c * * Copyright (C) 1992 Theodore Ts'o * * May be freely distributed as part of Linux. */
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