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Linus Says No GPLv3 for the Linux Kernel

Posted by Hemos on from the the-battle-wages-on dept.

HenchmenResources writes "Late Wednesday a posting from Linus Torvalds appered on the the Linux Kernel Mailing List. In it Linus states that the Linux Kernel will remain under the GPLv2. Types Linus,"The "version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version" language in the GPL copying file is not - and has never been - part of the actual License itself.""

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  1. I don't get it... by Concern · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Linus says:

    And quite frankly, I don't see that changing. I think it's insane to require people to make their private signing keys available, for example. I wouldn't do it.

    Private signing keys? I must have missed that in the GPLv3 discussion so far. What on earth is he talking about?

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