From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758751AbYD2Gds (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:33:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754513AbYD2Gdl (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:33:41 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]:28572 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754413AbYD2Gdk (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:33:40 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fTk1lj+snedjhCg3aeqqrO+qgvbS+LLPVkOA5qa4cTTHl+E9PRdKBQyyo3VTmy182gNz64TnhSc16IGYJ0PlZGG3VT9j0txcPbfk+ODb5+Qmc9RG8esWvP9xf46g4CqQfpQYqLFSVPBJCrVswY3CnjObzK+7rWnUnco2lymc39k= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:33:37 +0200 From: "Bart Van Assche" To: "pradeep singh rautela" Subject: Re: [Q]Can a file be dual licensed in upstream kernel? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Greg Kroah-Hartman" In-Reply-To: <6bc632150804282237o1aa04e28t93f46874cd14721f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6bc632150804282237o1aa04e28t93f46874cd14721f@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:37 AM, pradeep singh rautela wrote: > A small query. > Can a module/file be Dual licensed(i.e BSD/GPLv2) in the upstream > Linux kernel sources? > I think it is GPLv2 only. > > So does this means any dual licensed files should be aptly GPLv2 only? There are already source files in the Linux kernel that are dual licensed. See e.g. drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c. Note: not all licenses are compatible. License compatibility is indeed not a topic for the LKML mailing list. Bart.