From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263990AbTGWJ5Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:57:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264030AbTGWJ5Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:57:24 -0400 Received: from krusty.dt.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE ([129.217.163.1]:36763 "EHLO mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263990AbTGWJ5Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:57:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:12:28 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd Message-ID: <20030723101228.GC4172@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200307230512.h6N5CXQ10468@adam.yggdrasil.com> <20030723090847.GZ26422@fs.tum.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030723090847.GZ26422@fs.tum.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Adrian Bunk wrote: > There are _many_ people that have a copyright on parts of the Linux > kernel (the exact number might be different in different countries due > to different copyright laws). To change the copyright to anything other > than GPL v2 is practically impossible (even if a new version of the GPL > might fix the deficits you mentioned). How about the "or, at your option, any later version" clause in the GPL?