Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Jan 2008 23:18 UTC
Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, still has no plans to license the Linux kernel under version three of the GNU GPL anytime soon. Torvalds, a vocal critic of GPL v3 while it was being drafted, prefers GPL v2, he told Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation, Jan. 8 in the first in a series of podcasts titled 'Open Voices', which will feature the industry's top open source and Linux leaders. Torvalds also said Linux was the project that made the split clear between the religious belief in freedom advocated by the Free Software Foundation and the technical superiority that open source and Linux have always been about.
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The headline for this story is very, very misleading. |Shame on you, Thom.
Linus may (and does - he's a very opinionated fellow and has earned the right to be so) believe and say what he damn well pleases, but one thing he cannot do is to decide the kernel license since the kernel does not belong to him alone, but each piece of it to all the contributors to that piece.
Please let's not be lazy just use the first sentence of an article as its title, shall we? It may well be (as is the case here) that the author was unable to understand the concept of a community license.