Re: SUMMARY:What is accepted into the standard kernel sources ?

Eric Hoeltzel (eric@dogbert.sitewerks.com)
Sat, 7 Feb 1998 12:59:31 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Larry McVoy wrote:

> Just to make Alan's point a little more clear: the owner of a work
> (such as the owner of the firmware) can release the same work under
> multiple different copyrights. So in order to do what you want, you
> need two copyrights, the GPL and some business boilerplate. You slap
> the business one on the firmware that stays in house and the GPL on the
> source that you submit to the linux kernel. Everybody gets what they
> want - the fact that the two copies of the code differ only by copyright
> oesn't matter in the eyes of the law - they are both valid.

Exactly, except you are talking about licenses, not copyrights.

Eric Hoeltzel

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