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

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Message-ID: <d120d5000706141200r744d7cdfv3bfbbf558a05248e@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:00:15 -0400
From:	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	"Alexandre Oliva" <aoliva@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Daniel Hazelton" <dhazelton@...er.net>,
	"Bongani Hlope" <bhlope@...b.co.za>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	"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 6/14/07, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2007, "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> wrote:
>
> > On 6/14/07, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com> wrote:
> >> On Jun 14, 2007, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...ightbb.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Wednesday 13 June 2007 21:59, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >> >> For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
> >> >> gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients
> >> >> all the rights that you have.
> >> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >>
> >> > So if I am a sole author of a program and I chose to distribute it under
> >> > GPL
> >>
> >> then you're not a licensee, you're a licensor, and these terms don't
> >> apply to you.
>
> > Heh. When you change a GPLed program and pass your changes you are the
> > licensor for the new code. You still have a right and license pieces
> > of the code you wrote under different license but you do not pass that
> > right to recepient of modified work.
>
> You are the author of the change, and you can license them however you
> like.
[... skip...]
>
> Derived work or not, when you combine that change with the program,
> then you're bound by the terms of the license, and then you cannot
> change the licensing terms of the whole program, so you can't pass
> this right on either.
>

Ok, consider non-derived work. Because I am distributing whole program
I have to do it under GPL. However I still have the right to
distribute just the portion that is written by me under whatevel
license I want but you as a recepient of GPLed whole do not get this
right. IOW I am not passing all the rights _I have_.

-- 
Dmitry
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