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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RE[6]: Right on! - wait! Linus is less interested?
by jabbotts on Thu 10th Jan 2008 00:11
in reply to "RE[5]: Right on!"
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So basically it comes out that Linus is less interested in the ideology and merits of v3 and more in code
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Wait a minute! Linus is less interested in ideology?
hehe.. I couldn't resist being that everything I've read indicates that Linus is more interested in the development methodology and less interested in the ideology. 
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I'm not sure that "taking" code is, or should be, the main driver behind a decision such as this. GPLv3 should, IMHO, be considered on its merits first, not because it gives access to a wider pool of code. So basically it comes out that Linus is less interested in the ideology and merits of v3 and more in code this would make accessible. Which is ironic, perhaps hypocritical, and not what he has been saying all along. IIRC, his main objection was the tivoization clause, but now he appears to be singing a different tune.
I'm all for Linux switching to GPL v3, but I think HOW the switch is made is important just as much. Doing it to get more code is whory, IMHO. Doing it by "force", as Bruce Perens suggests, is immoral.
I have to be practical and say that I don't think Linux will be switched to v3 anytime soon. Short of doing it for the wrong reasons and with the wrong methods, there's just no way that all the contributors will agree, and that those that don't will have their code easily replaced. No way.