Messages in this thread | | | From | Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:02:24 -0400 |
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Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
> On Jun 14, 2007, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >>> >>> Hmm... So, if someone takes one of the many GPLv2+ contributions and >>> makes improvements under GPLv3+, you're going to make an effort to >>> accept them, rather than rejecting them because they're under the >>> GPLv3?
>> You *cannot* make GPLv3-only contributions to the kernel.
> I can make improvements to GPLv2+ files under GPLv3 (or rather will, > after GPLv3 is published).
You can do that, but you won't be able to distribute those changes along with the rest of the kernel.
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