Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders

[Giacomo A. Catenazzi]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Al Viro wrote:
>
> > Bzzert.   "GPLv2 only in the context of the Linux kernel" is incompatible
> > with GPLv2 and means that resulting kernel is impossible to distribute.
>
>
> Indeed. The GPL (both v2 and v3) disallow restricting usage. 
>
> So certain _code_ can be either v2 or v3 only, but you can't make that 
> decision based on how the code is used. 
>
> So you can't license, for example, your code "udner the GPL only for the 
> Linux kernel". Trust me, some companies have actually wanted to do exactly 
> that - they wanted to distribute their code, but _only_ for the kernel 
> (and you'd not be allowed to use it for any other GPL'd project). That 
> just cannot fly. It's either GPL, or it isn't. There's no "GPL with the 
> following rules".

Not really the same case, but ...

/*
 *  linux/init/version.c
 *
 *  Copyright (C) 1992  Theodore Ts'o
 *
 *  May be freely distributed as part of Linux.
 */

ciao
	cate
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