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    SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
    On 6/14/07, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
    > 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...
    >

    Undoubtedly. I was just responding to neet to contact multiple authors point.

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    Dmitry
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