On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:33:36 +0100 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.
Indeed.
There are parts under
* GPLv2 only
* GPLv2 or later
* other GPLv2-compatible licenses (such as, if I recall correctly,
3-clause BSD, X11, ...)
As a consequence, Linux (as a whole) is under "GPLv2 only".
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