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From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:55:14AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Linus is posturing. I can go back to numerous previous versions when he 
> and stallman were "buddy buddy" and the language was open
> and said "any later version". Well, here's the gotcha. Any version 
> released before Linus said this is GPL 2, 3 or later. As of today, all new
> versions are GPLv2. That's how the law works. So 2.6.15 forward is GPLv2 
> only.

Since I'm sure you seriously did your homework, I'll just assume you
mistyped "2.4.0-test8".

  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=96844578906748&w=2

  OG.