Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
No, the Authors clearly stated that only v2 applies for the kernel
as a whole, again single files may be under a different license
(GPL compatible), and so, some of them may be under a GPL version
that allow them to be used with the future GPLv3 license.
If the GPLv2 applies to the whole kernel, then it applies to all
files, single files cannot get special treatment. See section 2(b) of
the GPL.
Single files can get special treatment individually when not part of the
whole collection.
2(b) does not prevent the offering alternative licenses. Where such
alternatives conflict with GPL2 (as GPL3 does) those files cannot be
distributed under license of GPL3 with the GPL2 files.
What might stop them being individually distributed is that they may be
derivative works of some of the GPL2 only files, so although what you
say is not absolutely true it is probably true for the kernel where most
files are partial derivative works of another file and the kernel is not
a linked aggregation of seperate units.
Sam
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