Getting grubby with ZFS

Posted Dec 10, 2010 8:09 UTC (Fri) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876)
In reply to: Getting grubby with ZFS by pbonzini
Parent article: Getting grubby with ZFS

The only legal way to combine GPL 2+ code with GPL3 code is to distribute under the GPL3. So, the entire derived work would have to be GPL3 licensed.

This is the license that your new derived work would be distributed under. However, this does not somehow force the party that distributed the GPL 2+ code to begin with to switch to GPL3 themselves.