From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,71b4c0131a8a22a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Corrected version Re: pragma License ? References: <1182160706.208857@xnews001> <1182493841.177772.314860@c77g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <877ipws0hq.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> From: Markus E Leypold Organization: N/A Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:30:38 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6DpLBO4YXatvm32VIEE/xz793AE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.72.230.101 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1182522044 88.72.230.101 (22 Jun 2007 16:20:44 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16309 Date: 2007-06-22T16:30:38+02:00 List-Id: > Harald Korneliussen writes: >> anon wrote: >>> Also Linux was first written under Linus own license then moved to >>> GPL because it did not allow commercial redistribution. So Linus could >>> go back and write a new Linux license. >>> >>> E N O U G H S A I D A B O U T T H I S ! ! ! >> >> Sorry, can't let blatant misinformation like that stand. It concerns >> Ada insofar GNAT & GPL is so widespread and important. >> >> By now, Linus alone does not hold copyright to the entire kernel. I >> believe some contributors assign their rights to him, but some keep >> it, and many assign it to the Free Software Foundation instead (there >> are many kernel contributors to the "left" of Linus on free software >> issues). The FSF would never agree to a license change, except to >> GPL3. GPL2 does not force you to upgrade to GPL3 but it permits it >> ("at your option, any later version"). This means anyone is free to >> ship the entire kernel under GPL3, although you could still get it >> under the old licence from Linus and others. > > Linux is licensed under GPL v2 only, NOT "any later version". That's > actually the crux of why a move to GPLv3 would require agreement from > all copyright holders. AFAIK that 'NOT "any later version"' applies only to some of the files. The situation is aggrevated by the incompatibility of GPL3 with GPL2 -- it will prevent parts of the kernel going to GPL3 while the other parts retain GPL2. Regards -- Markus