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> The fact is, the copyright notices and licenses really _are_ a very > integral part of "Program". You cannot separate one from the other - not > conceptually, and not physically - and trying to do so would in fact be a > clear violation of section 1. Is it your position that a program distribution that includes a copy of GPLv2 and contains no other information about licensing is licensed *only* under GPLv2 and you can not substitute a later version at your option? It may help to review section 9: "Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation." Do you see in here *any* reference to a way to limit a program so that only one particular version of the GPL applies to it? In fact, the kernel's notice that you may only use v2 and no later version of the GPL appears, to me, to be an additional restriction that is not permitted by the GPL. That is, unless you can find a GPL section that permits that type of restriction. I was unable to find one. None of the examples included with the GPL include any such restriction of that type. I previously wrote that I thought that you could do so by including a notice to that effect in every file. I now do not believe that is the case. You cannot include any other type of restriction in a file under the GPL, and I don't see why that type of restriction would be an exception. DS - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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