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SubjectRe: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders
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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