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

Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-10T09:03:39Z

On Jun 10 2007 11:37, Tarkan Erimer wrote:
>
> Thanks for the corrections ;-) The whole picture is more clear now for me :-)
> BTW,I found a really interesting blog entry about which code in Linux Kernel is
> using which version of GPL :
>
> http://6thsenseless.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-much-linux-kernel-code-is-gpl-2.html

You've got to take MODULE_LICENSE() into account. There is

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL and additional rights");
MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
MODULE_LICENSE("Dual MIT/GPL");
MODULE_LICENSE("Dual MPL/GPL");

I think it's time to set things right, making

* MODULE_LICENSE the authoritative place for the license
(also makes it easier to grep for)

* sync up license into MODULE_LICENSE

Jan
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