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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:25:23 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...ightbb.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 Wednesday 13 June 2007 21:59, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > It *DOES* *NOT* say "All rights that you have". It says "All rights > > that are granted you by this license". > > I suggest you to reboot into memtest ;-) The preamble of GPLv2 says: > > 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 all recepients will get _all_ my rights, including right to re-license the program under BSD or a proprietory license? Yeah, riiight... Thankfully it is just preamble and not the actual license text. -- Dmitry - 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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