Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Al Viro wrote:
Bzzert. "GPLv2 only in the context of the Linux kernel" is incompatible
with GPLv2 and means that resulting kernel is impossible to distribute.
Indeed. The GPL (both v2 and v3) disallow restricting usage.
So certain _code_ can be either v2 or v3 only, but you can't make that
decision based on how the code is used.
So you can't license, for example, your code "udner the GPL only for the
Linux kernel". Trust me, some companies have actually wanted to do exactly
that - they wanted to distribute their code, but _only_ for the kernel
(and you'd not be allowed to use it for any other GPL'd project). That
just cannot fly. It's either GPL, or it isn't. There's no "GPL with the
following rules".
Not really the same case, but ...
/*
* linux/init/version.c
*
* Copyright (C) 1992 Theodore Ts'o
*
* May be freely distributed as part of Linux.
*/
ciao
cate
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