Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders

[Kyle Moffett]

On Jan 25, 2006, at 14:24:13, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Is it possible to have Linux be mostly GPL3 with parts of it GPL2?  
> Or is that just too insane to deal with?

Well given that parts of the kernel are GPLv2-only, other parts are  
GPLv2+, other parts are GPL/BSD, etc, I can't see how somebody using  
a GPLv3-only or GPLv3+ license for some other part would be  
problematic.  If anything, the multiple licensing provides additional  
code protection; we get the advantages of all the licenses, but if  
any one license is found to be invalid, it does not break the  
protection of the body of code itself.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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