On 3/12/06, Barry Gaskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, I do think that he has a lot of other reasons to not use it in > linux. Mostly because if any of linux goes to GPL version 3 then ALL of it > must go there. And since he did not write most of linux himself, he would > need to get the permission from ALL of the contributers. Since some of
Um, the GPL itself in paragraph 9 allows the user (not the contributors) to use any "later" version of the gpl, so getting the contributors to agree is irrelevant. Code authors restricting the license to v2.0 is impossible. That's my reading however, and the standard disclaimers apply. -- Joseph Tate Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
