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

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Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:53:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
cc:	Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com>,
	Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	debian developer <debiandev@...il.com>,
	"david@...g.hm" <david@...g.hm>,
	Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@...one.net.tr>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3



On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> So now the copy of the GPL v2 isn't good enough for the GPLv1.1 code?
> Maybe that code said 'or later' in the license and hence someone added
> it to a GPL v2 project since that sounds perfectly OK.

Where did that GPLv1.1 nonsense come from?

There is no GPLv1.1 code in the tree. By the time I selected the GPL for 
the kernel license, the GPLv1.1 had long since been discontinued. The 
kernel was *never* GPLv1.1-only compatible. That's just total nonsense.

There was indeed a kernel license before the GPLv2, but it wasn't the GPL 
at all, it was my own made-up thing. Appended here, for those who are too 
lazy to actually look up and check the original Linux-0.01 announcement.

		Linus

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