Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:14:29 -0500 (EST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders |
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On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Al Viro wrote: > > > > - You may not distibute this for a fee, not even "handling" > > costs. > > > > Mail me at "torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi" if you have any questions." > > > > and that one was only valid between kernel versions 0.01 and 0.12 or > > something like that. > > Interesting... What does that do to e.g. DVD with full (OK, modulo missing > early versions) kernel history all way back to 0.01?
Well, the good news is that I was the only real copyright holder back then (there's a couple of other people who contributed to 0.11 and/or 0.12, mainly Ted T'so with the BSD terminal control stuff - ^Z and friends).
I used to even re-write patches to suit my style (this was back then, the patches were smaller, and I was younger and had more energy). So some things that others sent in patches for (I think Peter McDonald did pty's) I ended up re-writing myself (and in the process I mixed up the master and slave pty major number, iirc ;)
> Even funnier question is what does that do to full CVS including the > early versions. Can that be distributed at all and what license would > fit it? Arguing that it's mere aggregation is possible, but it's a > bit of a stretch...
I think you can take it for granted that the GPL re-licensing was retro-active. I'm the sole copyright holder for 99% of it, and there were no objections to the relicensing even back when it happened, so I can pretty much guarantee that there would be none now ;)
It was a kind of strange license. I didn't spend a whole lot of time thinking about it ;)
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