Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 28th Sep 2006 15:36 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
Friday Several kernel developers issued a position paper criticizing the GPLv3 drafts. That prompted Software Freedom Law Center chairman Eben Moglen to issue a 'renewed invitation' yesterday to kernel developers to participate in the GPLv3 process. Linus Torvalds responded to Moglen's statement by saying that his position on the license is clear and that he's "fed up" with the FSF.
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2006-03-31
Even if that happened, Torvalds says that he's not "not going to single-handedly try to relicense" the kernel out of respect for past authors of kernel code.
Now it sounds like he is saying he COULD relicense the kernel. In fact it sounds as if he could attempt it singe handedly but may do it multi-handedly. Now now I thought he has been spouting that it was impossible. That there was no way even if he wanted to. In fact I have heard him quoted as saying that over and over around here. Interesting...