updating the GPL's status in http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category ?

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Wed Jan 20 12:53:27 UTC 2010


Raj Mathur <raju at linux-delhi.org> writes:
> On an unrelated note, is Linus' agreement only a necessary condition for 
> GPL v3 to be accepted for the Linux kernel, or is it both necessary and 
> sufficient?  My guess would be the former, since each individual 
> contributor has to agree to a change in licence, right?

Individual contributors have released their code under "v2 or later", so
Linus is free to unilaterally upgrade Linux to "v3 or later".

DES
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