From: "Михалева, Екатерина" <e.mihaleva@my.mgimo.ru>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Asking for clarifications
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 21:03:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPUAKLZiY9MfamAWvta_uBg+P-BxnW=6bDF_eHmNXREux6Ex4g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
To whom it may concern,
My name is Ekaterina Mikhaleva, I am a young researcher and a PhD student,
majoring in IT/IP law.
I would like to clarify how is it possible that the Guix System that is a
free GNU/Linux distribution acknowledged by the FSF uses Linux kernel,
which is licensed under GPLv2, and at the same time Guix System is licensed
under GPLv3?
I am a specialist in law, so I cannot probably grasp all the technical
peculiarities, though I have checked on your website in the "Packages"
section any mentioning on Linux kernel and here
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/linux.scm#n3138
I found the following:
(home-page "https://www.gnu.org/software/linux-libre/")
(synopsis "GNU Linux-Libre kernel headers")
(description "Headers of the Linux-Libre kernel.")
(license license:gpl2)))
As far as I know, GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible and Linux kernel is
licensed strictly under GPLv2 without any possibility to update to any
further version.
I presumed that GPLv2 would make the whole product subject to the term of
this particular license. Still your product is licensed under GPLv3, if I
am correct?
I will be immensely grateful for your clarifications.
Thank you in advance.
next reply other threads:[~2021-03-10 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-09 18:03 Михалева, Екатерина [this message]
2021-03-10 23:21 ` Asking for clarifications divoplade
2021-03-11 8:12 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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