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

From: Alexandre Oliva
Date: Thu Jun 14 2007 - 02:08:43 EST


On Jun 13, 2007, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If the two courts are in the same country there's usually a higher court
> above both that can resolve this. But what if let's say the highest
> court in the USA and the highest court in Germany would disagree on such
> a matter?

Upgrade the license so as to provide guidance as to the intent of the
authors, such that the disagreement doesn't happen again.

If there's room in each country's laws to fix the problem, that is.

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Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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