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

Dmitry Torokhov
2007-06-14T05:25:34Z

On Wednesday 13 June 2007 21:59, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > It *DOES* *NOT* say "All rights that you have". It says "All rights
> > that are granted you by this license".
>
> I suggest you to reboot into memtest ;-)  The preamble of GPLv2 says:
>
>   For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
>   gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients
>   all the rights that you have.
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So if I am a sole author of a program and I chose to distribute it under
GPL then all recepients will get _all_ my rights, including right to
re-license the program under BSD or a proprietory license? Yeah, riiight...

Thankfully it is just preamble and not the actual license text.

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Dmitry