I'm aware of the surrounding arguments, I promise; my remark was that I doubted Linux would like to ship a large mass of code with any additional encumberments

I'm aware of the surrounding arguments, I promise; my remark was that I doubted Linux would like to ship a large mass of code with any additional encumberments even if it didn't somehow fail the GPL compatible test. (I'm aware that this is an impossible condition barring court precedent that ignores the definition of the constraint.)