Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

[Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@cmu.edu>]

Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

> On Jun 14, 2007, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hmm...  So, if someone takes one of the many GPLv2+ contributions and
>>> makes improvements under GPLv3+, you're going to make an effort to
>>> accept them, rather than rejecting them because they're under the
>>> GPLv3?

>> You *cannot* make GPLv3-only contributions to the kernel.

> I can make improvements to GPLv2+ files under GPLv3 (or rather will,
> after GPLv3 is published).

You can do that, but you won't be able to distribute those changes along
with the rest of the kernel.

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
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