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

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Message-ID: <20070617012743.GA26272@alinoe.com>
Date:	Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:27:43 +0200
From:	Carlo Wood <carlo@...noe.com>
To:	"Jeffrey V. Merkey" <jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Bron Gondwana <brong@...tmail.fm>,
	Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	debian developer <debiandev@...il.com>, david@...g.hm,
	Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@...one.net.tr>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 08:21:22PM -0600, Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote:
> Linus,
> 
> Just take a vote and start tagging files and ignore this needless 
> diatribe. It is was it is, I seriously doubt you will
> get all of Linux moved to GPL3 as a monolith, since you will never get 
> concensus. You should fork a GPL3 kernel and let people decide
> whether their code goes in or not. If they don't want to move to it, new 
> people can contribute new code. Start a 2.8 tree or whatever that is 
> GPL3 only.

*snicker*

Yeah, Linus - when do you finally understand that nobody WANTS
your GPL3 kernel?  :))

ROFL

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo@...noe.com>

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