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GPLv3, Linux and GPLv2 Compatibility

Posted by Sander_Marechal on
O'Reilly Radar; By Allison Randal
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The Linux kernel is released under the GPLv2 license, not the "GPL version 2, or any later version", but explicitly GPL version 2. It means that the Linux kernel source won't be available under the GPLv3 unless the kernel developers make an explicit change to allow it. And, it appears the kernel developers aren't planning to make that change. So what's the likely outcome?

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