Torvalds licensing ignorance

Posted Mar 22, 2007 17:41 UTC (Thu) by viro (subscriber, #7872)
In reply to: Torvalds licensing ignorance by bronson
Parent article: The Torvalds Transcript (InformationWeek)

I don't believe that FSF will go for that, at least not until they
*really* give up all hope for v3 being feasible. And probably not
even then, due to perceived loss of face. IOW, it's even less likely
than relicensing of the kernel. Sure, if we run into real trouble
with v2 (i.e. serious failure in court somewhere) we'll have to do
something that would fit your description. But that's (a) unlikely,
as far as we know and (b) it would be v2 + explicit modifications,
not FSF-blessed v2.1.