If this were taken to an extreme then nothing proprietary could run on this kernel. That is not the intent of the code authors in many cases and frankly the wor

If this were taken to an extreme then nothing proprietary could run on this kernel. That is not the intent of the code authors in many cases and frankly the wording of GPLv2 being so vague here is as Linus has said part of it's strength. Given the very open context of how it's taken by the community the worst that will ever happen is the kernel eventually getting relicensed under GPLv2+Legal_Pedantry rather than nVidia or vmware being forced to open up their product codebases. Frankly this then gets even messier when considering copyright law, frankly given the weird status of an ABI/API in legal definitions this is the fault of the courts not the linux-kernel or the software devs...