[ILUG] Novell A Linux Leader? GPL 3 and

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:

> It would be impossible to re-license much of the existing code as 
> v3,

Much of the code already *is* "v2 or later".

Only the kernel in aggregate is "v2 only". Linus claims he only ever 
intended "v2 only" to apply (and he's got a really strange and 
*wrong* argument to back up that claim ;) ), however his change to 
COPYING to state that only occured for 2.4.0-test8. So much (bulk?) 
of Linus' contributions are available under "any version".

regards,
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