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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

  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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