Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders

[Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:46:17AM +0100, Simon Oosthoek wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some
> > individual files are licenceable under v3, but not the kernel in
> >general.
> 
> I believe that if v2 and v3 turn out to be incompatible, it would be
> quite hard to rationalise v3+ licensed files inside the kernel. So when
> people want their code to be in the kernel and still be v3+ compatible,
> they should probably dual license it, or include a specific section
> saying that the code can be licensed under v2 only if in the context of
> the Linux kernel.

Bzzert.   "GPLv2 only in the context of the Linux kernel" is incompatible
with GPLv2 and means that resulting kernel is impossible to distribute.
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