Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

[Paulo Marques]

Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:01:20PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > Multiple authors == need permission from each author with enough
> > > contributions to that file to make the contributions in question
> > > copyrightable.
> > >
> > > And in my case (and case of gregkh, and...) that would be considerably
> > > more than a couple of files.  Really.
> > I would expect that if you contribute to a file that explicitely says
> > "GPL v2 or later" and you do not change that wording then you agree
> > GPL v2 or later for that particular contribution. So for example
> > drivers/net/plip.c could be changed to GPL v3 even though you
> > contributed to it.
>
> After you exclude such cases it's still more than a couple of files...

FWIW,

$ find -name "*.c" | xargs grep "any later version" | wc -l
3138
$ find -name "*.c" | wc -l
9482

Watching the output of the first grep without "wc -l" shows that, 
although it is not 100% accurate, it is still ok just to get a rough 
estimate.

So yes, ~6300 files are definitely more than a couple ;)

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Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com

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