Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

Alexey Dobriyan
2007-06-17T17:41:59Z

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 10:29:57AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Gabor Czigola wrote:
> >I wonder why the linux kernel development community couldn't propose
> >an own GPL draft (say v2.2) that is "as free as v2" and that includes
> >some ideas (from v3) that are considered as good (free, innovative, in
> >the spirit of whatever etc.) by the majority of the kernel developers.
> >
> >I guess to have an own version of the GPL license could also help to
> >resolve (future) dual-licensing problems.

Similar (in spirit) idea recently arose on a different mailing list.
The answer was:

That's a great idea. Maybe Henning should write all this stuff up,
instead of making pf faster.

Let's do more shit-work, so that we have less time to improve the code.