Linus Torvalds' claim that he won't put the Linux kernel under the next version of the General Public License could represent another fracture in a community once united for free software.
The Free Software Foundation is currently re-writing the GPL for the first time in 15 years. A draft GPL v 3.0 was recently released and is expected to undergo broad discussion and changes before the version is adopted. Torvalds' wrote on the Linux kernel mailing list Wednesday that what is generally considered one of the most widely-used pieces of free software under the GPL will stay under the current version.
"The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else," he said. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing."
Torvalds objected to a new proposal that would require people to make previously private keys available, calling the idea "insane."
"I wouldn't do it. So I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code," he said.
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