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

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 15:55 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2007, "Gabor Czigola" <czigola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I wonder why the linux kernel development community couldn't propose
> > an own GPL draft (say v2.2) that is "as free as v2" and that includes
> > some ideas (from v3) that are considered as good (free, innovative, in
> > the spirit of whatever etc.) by the majority of the kernel developers.
> 
> For one, because the text of the GPL is copyrighted by the FSF, and
> licensed without permission for modification.  And that's as it should
> be, you don't want others to modify the terms of the license you chose
> for your code, do you?

That's probably precisely the reason for removing the "or later" so that
others (even if it's "only" the FSF) can't modify the terms of the
license chosen for the code.

	Bernd
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