From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli" <GNUtoo@no-log.org>
Cc: "luke.leighton" <luke.leighton@gmail.com>,
Ian Stirling <gplvio@mauve.plus.com>,
legal@lists.gpl-violations.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Would like to form a pool of Linux copyright holders for faster GPL enforcement against Anthrax Kernels
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:56:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130522175617.GA20848@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130522181329.234f43f0@m4a785t-m.lan>
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 06:13:29PM +0200, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> On Sun, 19 May 2013 11:57:15 +0100 "luke.leighton" <luke.leighton@gmail.com> wrote:
> > so. could someone please inform me what the procedure is: is it as
> > simple as submitting a patch?
> I think so(however I'm not a kernel maintainer),
> I found that(however the patch is really old):
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=798b6b19d7a4b6e1ea5340ec8b3b92811e05b81b
> So the idea would be to send a patch or series of patches to relicense
> your code under the GPLv2+(GPLv2 or later).
Only if you own the copyright on all of the lines of code of the file
in question.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-22 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-18 7:24 Would like to form a pool of Linux copyright holders for faster GPL enforcement against Anthrax Kernels Eric Appleman
2013-05-18 8:28 ` Eric Appleman
2013-05-18 18:27 ` luke.leighton
[not found] ` <1368918189923.dd7325ed@Nodemailer>
2013-05-19 10:39 ` luke.leighton
2013-05-19 11:04 ` Ralph Corderoy
2013-05-19 12:24 ` luke.leighton
2013-05-19 18:01 ` Thomas Charron
2013-05-19 11:19 ` Jonas Gorski
2013-05-19 12:34 ` luke.leighton
2013-05-19 13:28 ` Jonas Gorski
2013-05-19 13:45 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-05-19 18:06 ` Thomas Charron
2013-05-19 17:55 ` Thomas Charron
[not found] ` <ce644e6e12d68aaabed7403b5f21c124@imap.plus.net>
2013-05-19 10:57 ` luke.leighton
2013-05-19 13:53 ` Phil Turmel
2013-05-20 10:24 ` Ian Stirling
2013-05-20 11:33 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-05-22 16:13 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2013-05-22 17:56 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2013-05-21 10:11 ` Rob Landley
2013-05-22 15:45 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2013-05-22 15:59 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
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