On Jun 14, 2007, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > Alexandre Oliva <[email protected]> writes: >> On Jun 14, 2007, Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> 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. I know. Neither will Linus. But he says he chose GPLv2 such that he could, and the v2 is better than v3 in this regard. What's wrong with this picture? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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