linux-kernel - Re: The linux devs can rescind their license grant.

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Date:   Mon, 29 Oct 2018 22:31:46 +0000
From:   "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn@...onservancy.org>
To:     ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>, editor@....net,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        bruce@...ens.com
Subject: Re: The linux devs can rescind their license grant.

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 07:56:26AM +0000, visionsofalice@...chan.it wrote:
> The linux devs can rescind their license grant.
Greg KH responded on Thu, 25 Oct 2018 09:19:11 +0100:
>> No they can not, please do not keep spreading false information.

I was explicitly cc'ed on this thread by visionsofalice.  I've read the
whole thread, and the only useful thing I can contribute here is to agree
with Greg and additionally provide some backup research on the point:
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/sep/26/GPLv2-irrevocability/

Software Freedom Conservancy engaged our legal counsel to write a new
section for the Copyleft Guide that further explains the irrevocability of
GPLv2.  We published this when others raised these specious claims back in
September.  Direct link to new section:
https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidech8.html#x11-540007.4

HTH,
-- 
Bradley M. Kuhn
Distinguished Technologist of Software Freedom Conservancy
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