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Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:56:50 -0400 From: Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@...one.net.tr>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 On Sunday 10 June 2007 09:40:23 Alan Cox wrote: > > But I think this is largely academic. You only need a fairly small > > number of fairly significant contributors to say "no" and the rest of > > the process would be pointless. And at last count, the number of > > kernel people who were not keen on GPLv3 was fairly high. Of course > > no-one knows for certain yet what the final GPLv3 will be, and maybe > > lots of people would change their mind when it comes out. > > You can take a fair bet someone will say no, or much more likely they or > whoever inherited their copyright will say $50,000 I seeds shades of Merkey there :P Seriously, though, this was all settled a long time ago. Linus said "While individual parts of the kernel *could* be licensed [with another license] the kernel as a whole is strictly GPLv2" (I've tried to get it right, but my memory isn't as good as it used to be when it comes to useful quotes like that) DRH - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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