linux-kernel - Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

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Date:	Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:00:46 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Igor Sobrado <igor@...dmat1.ciencias.uniovi.es>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	"Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@...il.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Alan Cox wrote:

>> So, a multi-licensed file remains multi-licensed except when all authors
>> agree about a change in the licensing terms.  And it is clear on the BSD
>
> Not strictly true. They can either agree to a change and issue one or
> they can convey to other parties the right to change the terms. The GPL
> for example does this for version selection.

So, under a dual-licensed BSD/GPL code the latter license allows a 
developer to remove the GPL license itself and release a single-licensed 
BSD code if other parties want to do it?

> A multi-licensed work (note work not file - don't assume a file is a
> boundary of a work) which conveys the choice of licence (as some bits of
> ath5k did) allows a receiving party to choose the licence it wishes.
> Failing that OpenBSD would have turned itself GPL by adding that file as
> according to your argument "it must be distributed under *all* these
> licensing terms concurrently".

I would assume a file as a boundary of a work in the case that file is 
under different licensing terms to the rest of the software package.  On a 
lot of software packages different modules are covered under different 
licensing terms.

We can choose what license terms we will honor; however, we do not have 
the ability to remove the licensing terms we do not like.

Igor.
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