From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>,
"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>,
davids@webmaster.com, jp@enix.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible GPL infringement in Broadcom-based routers
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 16:08:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041107210811.GA3944@michonline.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1099756157.2814.16.camel@laptop.fenrus.org>
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 04:49:17PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > For the kernel, Linus has clarified the license of the kernel (it is _not_
> > vanilla GPL), see COPYING. And one would assume that if somebody
> > contributes voluntarily, they are agreeing to the licence...
>
> the kernel is under the vanilla GPL, not only did Linus say so
> repeatedly, also it contains code that IS under the vanilla GPL.
> (eg taken from other projects etc etc).
Well, that's not *quite* accurate.
Vanilla GPL tends to be "version 2 or any later version", whereas Linux
is distributed *only* under version 2.
(Yes, rather nitpicky, and I'm not disagreeing with you in any
meaningful way - just trying to make sure archive searches find the correct
statements over and over again.)
--
Ryan Anderson
sometimes Pug Majere
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-07 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-05 18:43 Possible GPL infringement in Broadcom-based routers Adam J. Richter
2004-11-05 19:59 ` David Schwartz
2004-11-06 3:23 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-06 20:09 ` David Schwartz
2004-11-06 21:40 ` Stephen Pollei
2004-11-07 17:05 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-06 13:38 ` Horst von Brand
2004-11-06 15:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-07 21:08 ` Ryan Anderson [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-06 10:40 Adam J. Richter
2004-11-05 18:51 ` Michael Poole
2004-11-05 18:58 ` Disconnect
2004-11-05 19:03 ` David Schwartz
2004-11-05 19:38 ` linux-os
2004-11-05 19:06 ` Horst von Brand
2004-11-05 19:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-06 3:21 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-11-05 18:31 Adam J. Richter
2004-11-05 18:20 Adam J. Richter
2004-11-05 20:00 ` Michael Poole
2004-11-04 23:33 Jérôme Petazzoni
2004-11-04 23:57 ` David Schwartz
2004-11-05 0:23 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-11-05 15:27 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-05 4:05 ` Scott Lockwood
2004-11-05 20:28 ` Tonnerre
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