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

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 14, 2007, lsorense@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:26:30PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> In the program you received under GPLv1.
>> 
>> Hey, you said there was code under GPLv1.1 in the Linux tree.  Then,
>> there should be a copy of GPLv1.1 in there, otherwise AFAICT the
>> distribution of that code is copyright infringement.  IANAL.

> So now the copy of the GPL v2 isn't good enough for the GPLv1.1 code?

If it exists and it's 1.1-only, I believe it wouldn't, but IANAL.

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