Linus Says No GPLv3 for the Linux Kernel

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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Thank you Linus!

[rnd()]

I'm happy to read that Linus appears to have a lot more sense than the FSF people who are so anti-business that they want to sabotage many of the businesses who embraced open source.

What a rude awakening the GPL3 has the potential to foster, as firms go fleeing back to closed source alternatives in order to comply.

Thanks Linus!

He is right, surely

[FishandChips]

Just my 2 cents, but playing politics isn't going to help Linux, or any other software. There is nothing wrong with looking at ways in which in the GPL2 (or any other licence) could be improved. But buying into the agenda of some of the more far-out ranters and anti-capitalist nutjobs of the free software world isn't going to help anyone, and at the moment they all seem lumped together under the general heading "GPL3" On the contrary, it will make Linux less useful to a lot of folks and put off still more potential users.

Not for the first time, Linux Torvalds is applying a touch to the brakes and suggesting that a little common sense might go a long way. Or that's how I read this, anyway. I guess the ghastly Richard Stallman will just have to continue gnashing and gnuing his teeth. The Linux kernel is absolutely not his kernel.