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Linus Rejects GPL v3

January 26, 2006 on 8:18 pm | In Linux |

Linus made the following statement on the LKML about the Linux kernel and whether or not it would be switching to the soon-to-be-released GPL v3:

The Linux kernel has _always_ been under the GPL v2. Nothing else has ever been valid.
The “version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version” language in the GPL copying file is not - and has never been - part of the actual License itself. It’s part of the _explanatory_ text that talks about how to apply the license to your program, and it says that _if_ you want to accept any later versions of the GPL, you can state so in your source code.

The Linux kernel has never stated that in general. Some authors have chosen to use the suggested FSF boilerplate (including the “any later version” language), but the kernel in general never has.

In other words: the _default_ license strategy is always just the particular version of the GPL that accompanies a project. If you want to license a program under _any_ later version of the GPL, you have to state so explicitly. Linux never did.

Read the article here, and Linus’ original message here.

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