Simon Oosthoek wrote:
Al Viro wrote:
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.
If I would actually prefer my code to be licensed under v3 or higher,
I'd have to specify that my code is only licensed under v2 for the
kernel to humour Linus Torvalds and respect the license of the kernel,
but in all other ways the code is used, I
I think what the "Bzzert" is implying is that once you license your code
under the GPL v2 for the kernel use, it's then licensed that way for
distribution. You can't prohibit people from using it in other contexts
with that license or it violates the GPL v2 license and then can't be
distributed with the kernel, either. If I'm reading that correctly.
To cross license you'd have to allow either license for any use, really,
as long as the use complies with the license. Adding 'if the code is
used outside of the kernel, it would "fall back to" v3+' would violate
the GPL v2.
-- Chris
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