From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932125AbWATUIc (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:08:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932148AbWATUIc (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:08:32 -0500 Received: from master.soleranetworks.com ([67.137.28.188]:55739 "EHLO master.soleranetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932125AbWATUIb (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:08:31 -0500 Message-ID: <43D12A49.7040509@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:22:01 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick McLean Cc: Stephen Hemminger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux References: <43D114A8.4030900@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20060120111103.2ee5b531@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> <43D13B2A.6020504@cs.ubishops.ca> In-Reply-To: <43D13B2A.6020504@cs.ubishops.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patrick McLean wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > >> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:49:44 -0700 >> "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: >> >>> Cudos to Stallman, The patent retaliation clause is exactly what has >>> been missing. The inclusion of custom binaries was a little vague, but >>> the net of it is that the end user can combine the separate parts, >>> and have the freedom to do so given the GPL3 terms. Any concensus >>> on whether Linux will move to GPL3? >> >> >> No consensus exists, and it would require agreement from all the >> copyright >> holders. >> > > I don't think the kernel is going to move to v3, it's licensed > specifically as v2, this is from the top of COPYING: > > > Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel > > is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not > > v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. > > Also, given that several of the copyright holders in the kernel are > dead, I don't think we will be able to obtain permission. I can do a ceremony and call them with an eagle bone whistle and a Califonia Condor Feather. We can then ask them directly. GPL2 is fine if the kernel stays that way for my projects. moving forward, the patent retaliation clause is a great idea. Jeff > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >