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Hi Neil, Neil Brown wrote: > On Saturday June 9, tarkan@netone.net.tr wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> As we know the forthcoming GPL V3 will be not compatible with the GPL V2 >> and Linux Kernel is GPL V2 only. >> So, another point is, which is previously mentioned by Linus and others, >> that if it is decided to upgrade the Linux Kernel's License to GPL V3, >> it is needed the permission of all the maintainers permission who >> contributed to the Linux Kernel and there are a lot of lost or dead >> maintainers. Which makes it impossible to get all the maintainers' >> permission. >> > > You don't need the permission of maintainers. You need the permission > of copyright owners. The two groups overlap, but are not the same. > Dead people cannot own anything, even copyright. Their estate > probably can. I don't think it is theoretically impossible to get > everyone's permission, though it may be quite close to practically > impossible. > > So, does it mean we can change the license of the dead people's code ? - 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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