Joseph Tate wrote:
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.
But if you go look at your handy dandy kernel sources and check out the file COPYING, this is there:
Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
and something like that has been there for quite a while, not sure how long. Paragraph 9 does allow people to apply later licenses, but only if the version covering the code is not specified, which for the kernel it is.
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