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Most GPL licenses permits their code to be redistributed as the same GPL version or any later version of the GPL, Linux releases as GPLv2 or later for example.
by boomboomsubban 5y ago
Most GPL licenses permits their code to be redistributed as the same GPL version or any later version of the GPL, Linux releases as GPLv2 or later for example.
Perf does not permit the license to be redistributed as anything except GPLv2, so it conflicts with GPLv3 code.
- Someone 5y ago“Linux releases as GPLv2 or later for example” Linux doesn’t use “or later”. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/COPYING https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/COPYING: The Linux Kernel is provided under: SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note Being under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, according with: LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 With an explicit syscall exception, as stated at: LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note In addition, other licenses may also apply. Please see: Documentation/process/license-rules.rst for more details. All contributions to the Linux Kernel are subject to this COPYING file.
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