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

Dmitry Torokhov
2007-06-15T12:46:16Z

On 6/15/07, Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 14 June 2007 20:55, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > It does not matter. GPL v2 and later can be reduced to v2 by
> > recepient.
>
> And expanded by the next recipient to GPLv2 or later, as long as the first
> recipient does not make a substantial modification ("substantial" is a
> copyright term - there is no precise definition how much must be modified,
> but a line or two may not count as "substantial"). This is because you
> receive the license from the original author, not from the man in the
> middle.
>

No, you do receive the license from the person or entity you received
the program. You have an _option_ to go to the original author and get
copy of original code with original license (or maybe other license).

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Dmitry