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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:37:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030723103745.GA26422@fs.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030723101228.GC4172@merlin.emma.line.org>

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:12:28PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > There are _many_ people that have a copyright on parts of the Linux
> > kernel (the exact number might be different in different countries due
> > to different copyright laws). To change the copyright to anything other
> > than GPL v2 is practically impossible (even if a new version of the GPL
> > might fix the deficits you mentioned).
> 
> How about the "or, at your option, any later version" clause in the GPL?

This clause is not part of the GPL, it's only a suggestion on how to
copyright your code.

COPYING in the kernel sources includes an explict statement.

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-23 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-23  5:12 Promise SATA driver GPL'd Adam J. Richter
2003-07-23  5:28 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23  9:08   ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 10:12     ` Matthias Andree
2003-07-23 10:21       ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-07-23 11:47         ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 11:54           ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-07-23 22:22           ` On "any later version" in GPL [Was: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd] Horst von Brand
2003-07-23 10:37       ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2003-07-23 10:29     ` Promise SATA driver GPL'd Alan Cox
2003-07-23 10:51       ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 11:43         ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 12:17           ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 12:32           ` Martin Diehl
2003-07-23 12:57             ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 19:08               ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 19:19                 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 19:33                   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 19:46                   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 20:59                 ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 22:22                   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 22:40                     ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 22:35                       ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 23:02                         ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 23:08                           ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 23:33                             ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 23:45                               ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24  0:14                                 ` dacin
2003-07-24  0:23                                   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24  0:21                     ` David Schwartz
2003-07-24  0:21                       ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24 13:23                       ` Jesse Pollard
2003-07-24 14:01                         ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-24 18:37                         ` David Schwartz
2003-07-23 22:32                   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 22:46                     ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-23 23:13                       ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 10:40   ` Adam Sampson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-22 18:45 Erik Andersen
2003-07-22 18:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-22 19:07   ` Erik Andersen
2003-07-22 19:39     ` Samuel Flory
2003-07-22 20:56     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-22 21:39       ` Erik Andersen
2003-07-22 23:25         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-27  3:01         ` Nick Urbanik
2003-08-27  3:14           ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-27  9:00             ` Matthias Andree
2003-08-27 11:51               ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-22 20:57     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-23 13:20     ` Mark Watts
2003-07-23  1:59 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23  2:38   ` Shawn
2003-07-23 10:32   ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 18:58     ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24 11:22       ` Matthias Andree
2003-08-13 13:34     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-13 14:24       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-15 10:17         ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-25  3:44 ` Milan Roubal

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