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Linus Torvalds' love-hate relationship with the GPL
- mankash666 10y agoThere are plenty of successful open source projects with permissive licenses. GPL was probably the best license for Linux at a time when the debate was rife with a"winner take all" attitude. Today, maybe a permissive license would have sufficed.
- l2dy 10y agoA permissive license would allow Android phone manufacturers to legally keep their kernel closed-source. Not so good for custom ROM developers.
- mankash666 10y agoEven with a GPL_ed kernel, you need binary blobs for certain firmware and Android drivers. The base kernel is only half the story.