linux-kernel - Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

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Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:16:01 -0400
From:	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	"Al Viro" <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	"Bernd Paysan" <bernd.paysan@....de>,
	"Krzysztof Halasa" <khc@...waw.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

On 6/14/07, Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:01:20PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > >Multiple authors == need permission from each author with enough
> > >contributions to that file to make the contributions in question
> > >copyrightable.
> > >
> > >And in my case (and case of gregkh, and...) that would be considerably
> > >more than a couple of files.  Really.
> >
> > I would expect that if you contribute to a file that explicitely says
> > "GPL v2 or later" and you do not change that wording then you agree
> > GPL v2 or later for that particular contribution. So for example
> > drivers/net/plip.c could be changed to GPL v3 even though you
> > contributed to it.
>
> After you exclude such cases it's still more than a couple of files...
>

Undoubtedly. I was just responding to neet to contact multiple authors point.

-- 
Dmitry
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