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GPLv3GPLv3Posted Apr 30, 2009 9:08 UTC (Thu) by forthy (guest, #1525)In reply to: GPLv3 by paulj Parent article: Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun
It is only necessary to find those copyright owners who explicitely said they were only supporting GPLv2. The "GPLv2 only" tag in the COPYING file from Linus is only telling you that "the whole work is GPLv2 only by least common denominator". AFAIK, all GPLv2-only proponents are vocal and easy to track down. Large parts of the kernel are GPLv2 or later, and so can be changed to GPLv3 without asking the copyright holders of those parts (e.g. the ALSA team). Of course it is a lot easier to switch to GPLv3 or later if you were GPLv2 or later before. Been there, done that. Simply changing the COPYING file is sufficient.
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GPLv3 Posted Apr 30, 2009 10:40 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
No - given that the default assumption in the kernel is that it's GPLv2, it's the ones who explicitly say GPLv2 or later who are the exception. Patches to any files that are v2 only are also v2 only. Large parts of the kernel may be v2 or later, but the majority is v2 only. It follows that you have a large number of copyright holders to find.
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