On 6/14/07, Al Viro <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:01:20PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >Multiple authors == need permission from each author with enough
> >contributions to that file to make the contributions in question
> >copyrightable.
> >
> >And in my case (and case of gregkh, and...) that would be considerably
> >more than a couple of files. Really.
>
> I would expect that if you contribute to a file that explicitely says
> "GPL v2 or later" and you do not change that wording then you agree
> GPL v2 or later for that particular contribution. So for example
> drivers/net/plip.c could be changed to GPL v3 even though you
> contributed to it.
After you exclude such cases it's still more than a couple of files...
Undoubtedly. I was just responding to neet to contact multiple authors point.
--
Dmitry
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