Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:01:27 +0100 | From | Rogier Wolff <> | Subject | Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders |
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On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:57:31PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > Clause 9 is clear and is part of the GPL v2. The GPL v2 text gives > people (including you) that right itself if no version is specified in > the program. You and the other authors granted that right if you didn't > include a statement about version. Now as it happens various > contributors specified versions long ago and you clarified it too.
Alan, Linus,
I have indicated my wish to have my code GPL-2 only in 2000. Linus, declined to change the files. My intention has been for the past 5 and a half years to have my code GPL-2 only, only the files don't reflect that change yet.
REW wrote on Fri, 8 Sep 2000 23:17:09 +0200 (MEST): > Linus,
> I trust YOU on this. Could you change
> * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as > * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of > * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> into
> * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License > * version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
> for all the files that I own copyright on?
Linus answered on: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 09:29:01 +0200 (MEST) > Thanks. For the moment, I'd rather like to not do any extra changes, and > see what the reaction from the FSF and other people is - let's not hurry > into this any faster than we have to. I wanted to make a public statement > because I thought it needed to be done, but at the same time I do not want > to make a rift between Linux and the FSF bigger than necessary. > > So let this lie for a while, and see what happens, ok?
Roger.
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