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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2005-11-14
For example because time passes, and the world changes.
The world of software today is completely different from how it was 15 years ago and we may need different software licenses.
Just think about DRM and software patents: that are the point that GPL3 tries to cover and they didn't exists 15 years ago.
That said, I'm not sure that a license change in Linux would be good, still, discharge the idea just because "GPL2 has always been good enough" doesn't seems a good motivation to me.