Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:16:01 -0400 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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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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