Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:09:02 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:01:20PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > >Multiple authors == need permission from each author with enough > >contributions to that file to make the contributions in question > >copyrightable. > > > >And in my case (and case of gregkh, and...) that would be considerably > >more than a couple of files. Really. > > I would expect that if you contribute to a file that explicitely says > "GPL v2 or later" and you do not change that wording then you agree > GPL v2 or later for that particular contribution. So for example > drivers/net/plip.c could be changed to GPL v3 even though you > contributed to it.
After you exclude such cases it's still more than a couple of files... - 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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