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

Linus Torvalds
2007-06-14T18:55:15Z

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
> So now the copy of the GPL v2 isn't good enough for the GPLv1.1 code?
> Maybe that code said 'or later' in the license and hence someone added
> it to a GPL v2 project since that sounds perfectly OK.

Where did that GPLv1.1 nonsense come from?

There is no GPLv1.1 code in the tree. By the time I selected the GPL for
the kernel license, the GPLv1.1 had long since been discontinued. The
kernel was *never* GPLv1.1-only compatible. That's just total nonsense.

There was indeed a kernel license before the GPLv2, but it wasn't the GPL
at all, it was my own made-up thing. Appended here, for those who are too
lazy to actually look up and check the original Linux-0.01 announcement.

Linus

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