Torvalds Hasn’t Ruled Out GPL 3 for Linux

It seems like Linus Torvalds cannot make up his mind about whether or not to use the GPL3 for the Linux kernel. After clearly rejecting the idea of using the GPL3 (‘and I don’t see that changing’), he now opens the option up again. “It’s ‘quite possible,’ said Torvalds that the GPL 3 could be used, ‘but on the other hand, there’s a purely practical problem with any change of license when you have tens of major copyright holders and hundreds of people who have written some part and thousands who have submitted one-liners and small fixes. There are, after all, benefits to putting the kernel under the GPL 3,’ Torvalds said.”

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