On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 05:53:52PM +0200, Bernd Schmidt wrote: > I don't think that's true. Given that all copyrights are assigned to the > FSF, > the FSF could license these changes as GPLv2+ (in 4.2) and GPLv3+ (in 4.3 and > up) without a problem. The original author's wishes do not come into play.
I believe the key point here is that the FSF does not wish to do so. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery