Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 8th Feb 2006 18:27 UTC
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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2.) The concern over companies deciphering the legality of their activities in respect to their software licenses holds true if they are using proprietary applications as well.
Right but the liablity for such in handled by the software vendor and generally concerns number of installs, users etc.. Where FOSS can be any number of conditions for instance a simple FOSS code modification could violate mulitple licenses if done improperly where as proprietary software wouldn't suffer that problem.