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

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:53:54 +0200 (CEST)
From:	"Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot@...oste.net>
To:	"Daniel Hazelton" <dhazelton@...er.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

Daniel Hazelton wrote
> If "DRM" was against the license then an extra section clearly
> explaining that could have been added. (in the DRM case I  actually
> understand the reasoning and agree with it.)

Changing licenses is not like changing software code, re-licensing is
a major hassle so "release early, release often" is not a viable
strategy.

That means GPL v3 is not a nice localised incremental patch but a huge
patchset on all the issues that have accumulated since GPLv2 was
written (and one can discuss the correctness of parts of this
patchset)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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