From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: pradeep singh rautela <rautelap@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Q]Can a file be dual licensed in upstream kernel?
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:53:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080429055356.GA8279@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6bc632150804282237o1aa04e28t93f46874cd14721f@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:07:37AM +0530, pradeep singh rautela wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A small query.
> Can a module/file be Dual licensed(i.e BSD/GPLv2) in the upstream
> Linux kernel sources?
Are you somehow not believing the files that we have in the tree that
are licensed this way?
> I think it is GPLv2 only.
Licensing questions would be better off asked to lawyers, not
programmers. Would you ask a random group of lawyers on a public
mailing list medical questions and trust their responses?
good luck,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 5:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-29 5:37 [Q]Can a file be dual licensed in upstream kernel? pradeep singh rautela
2008-04-29 5:53 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-04-29 6:10 ` pradeep singh rautela
2008-04-29 6:26 ` Hans J. Koch
2008-04-29 6:31 ` pradeep singh rautela
2008-05-01 14:59 ` David Schwartz
2008-05-14 15:28 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-14 23:36 ` David Schwartz
2008-05-15 18:23 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-29 6:33 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-29 8:50 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 9:16 ` pradeep singh rautela
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