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

Alexandre Oliva
2007-06-15T21:05:30Z

On Jun 15, 2007, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 03:18:24PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Jun 15, 2007, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > *OR* inherits the default license of the project.
>>
>> You got any case law for this? Seriously, I could use this for
>> FSFLA's IRPF2007-Livre project.
>> http://fsfla.org/svnwiki/blogs/lxo/pub/freeing-the-lion

> Umm... What other license choices are there?

Where does it say that there must be one?

> No specific case law, but I'd expect serious [eventual] trouble for
> somebody trying to slap some different license in such case.

Consider this (to make the freeing-the-lion story short):

Jar file with .class files, with a copy of LGPL in the root of the
tree. No other license anywhere to be seen. Is it safe to assume
the whole thing is under the LGPL?

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