Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: > >>Interesting point. But the statement would apply certainly to >>Linus' own contributions. And that would preclude distribution >>of anything containing those contributions under anything but GPLv2 >>I think. But if you can take out his code (and any other that's >>GPLv2 only), you'd be free to apply GPLv3 if and when it comes out. >> >>Arnoud >> >> > Sorry, but no, no, no. > > Everything that is not completely independent and extractable and beyond > any doubt non-historically-derived of Linus code is a derivative work > and, as such, can only be distributed under the terms of the GPLv2. > > To prove something not derivative, you would have to show that > historically, it was made for other kernel, and that there is no > tranformation of the linux kernel that resulted in that something. There > *is* at least one example in the tree: the ppp code is derivative from > one of the BSDs.
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