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

From: Florin Malita
Date: Fri Jun 15 2007 - 12:18:58 EST


On 06/15/2007 10:33 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le Ven 15 juin 2007 15:41, Jesper Juhl a Ãcrit :
But the only thing that *actually* matters is what the license text
*says*. It doesn't matter what the authors of the license text
intended

Judges would disagree there

I very much doubt that, read Jesper's phrase carefully: what may matter is the intent of the *copyrighted work's* author, not the intent of the *license* author. The intent of the latter is (well, should be) completely irrelevant to the case.

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