From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751167AbWA0OSv (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:18:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751203AbWA0OSv (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:18:51 -0500 Received: from dspnet.fr.eu.org ([213.186.44.138]:2058 "EHLO dspnet.fr.eu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751167AbWA0OSv (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:18:51 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:18:50 +0100 From: Olivier Galibert To: Simon Oosthoek Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders Message-ID: <20060127141850.GC65793@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Galibert , Simon Oosthoek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <43D7B20D.7040203@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43D7B5C4.5040601@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43D7D05D.7030101@perkel.com> <43D9F9F9.5060501@ti-wmc.nl> <20060127133939.GU27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> <43DA2795.707@ti-wmc.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43DA2795.707@ti-wmc.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:00:53PM +0100, Simon Oosthoek wrote: > If I'd want to contribute code to the kernel, I'd have to comply with > the license of the kernel, which is v2 of the GPL. If I would actually > prefer my code to be licensed under v3 or higher, I'd have to specify > that my code is only licensed under v2 for the kernel to humour Linus > Torvalds and respect the license of the kernel, but in all other ways > the code is used, I only grant a license to copy under the conditions of > the GPL v3 or higher. I don't see why that would affect the distribution > of the kernel at all. "GPLv2 only for the kernel" is a different license than "GPLv2" and is incompatible with GPLv2. OG.