From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750768AbWBCNcE (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 08:32:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750772AbWBCNcE (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 08:32:04 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.195]:8386 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750768AbWBCNcC (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 08:32:02 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id:from; b=YvMHd5bLN0OERA4q/ZHx6d3sj60e047rC1eOUcRNfq3k/o5BMCvGH869qKd0zQwKVXDY5a8WGsT2g3XG1I7ulcnmtxOTEumyQNiqdEZCRUfD9uQomUYKHf4tCVqOZPTKijqpGuGTY2fPegYpw/faU3GwpXjljaSwmCgbm2ILNDc= Reply-To: ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com To: davids@webmaster.com Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 08:31:43 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 Cc: mrmacman_g4@mac.com, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602030831.44054.ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> From: Andrew James Wade Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 03 February 2006 00:35, David Schwartz wrote: > I have no idea what you mean by the "GPL's license". If it's contained in > the GPL, it's part of the GPL. The GPL is all of a piece. "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed." Those two lines look like a copyright license for the GPL. It makes sense for the GPL to be licensed under the GPL, but it's less than obvious to me that that is actually the case. Andrew Wade