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The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing.


Linus Torvalds

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LINUS TORVALDS The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable...
LINUS TORVALDS Conversion isn't going to happen. I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the ker...
LINUS TORVALDS Do I see fragmentation for the Linux kernel? There is certainly going to be some of that.
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AHMAD MOAWAD Chinese software developers should be able to work on the Linux kernel project, as a peer, with some...
MARK WHITE it was more like two scared kids huddling in the dark when they knew the monster under the bed wasn'...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That...
LINUS TORVALDS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU...
RICHARD STALLMAN You can only shove shit under your bed for so long before it starts moving around and wanting to get...
LILI ST. CROW Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, whitelight. It's God. No, not R...
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DAN WOODS The only place we still use HP-UX is where the application is not available under Linux. Our goal is...
TONY MILLER The handset manufacturers' deeply embedded requirements are...not making their way back into the ker...
STUART COHEN We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - w...
TOM VILSACK When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY We lay there, under the stars, the moonlight enveloping us like a letter, folded together to be fore...
AISHABELLA SHEIKH They say that there is "kernel of truth I every stereotype" But fools ignore the truth to gain accep...
TROY J. GAINEY I think the reason graduated licensing works is because you're not changing behavior, but changing c...
SUSAN FERGUSON You don't see these magnets come out. They're half the size of a popcorn kernel.
SIM OSBORN Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
LINUS TORVALDS Faith is like a kernel of wheat.
JOE BOB BRIGGS Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medi...
HENRIK IBSEN You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact...
HARRY DEAN STANTON The body is the shell of the soul, and dress the husk of that shell; but the husk often tells what t...
ANONYMOUS Anything that promotes a kernel of science, even though it's exaggerated and hyped by Hollywood,...
MICHIO KAKU Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true ...
K.W. JETER Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.
ALAN DUNDES Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
CHARLES SPURGEON Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON He who would have the kernel must crack the shell.
UNKNOWN Give it to me, she wanted to scream. Give me the pain. Let me take it from you.
VERONICA ROSSI If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON You must crack the nuts before you can eat the kernel.
IRISH PROVERB In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll ge...
ORVILLE REDENBACHER The rights that we have under the Constitution covers anything we want to do, as long as its not har...
BARRY GOLDWATER If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also to den...
TOM LEHRER When you GIVE under “compulsion” or “Grudgingly” you are giving under the LAW of giving and ...
JOHN PAUL WARREN The field is continually changing, and some companies feel like they're constantly under siege. It t...
JOHN CHALLENGER The interesting thing about Android's design is how little we modified the kernel.
ROBERT LOVE I recognize the fact that we operate under the premise that an individual is innocent until proven g...
MICHAEL GIBSON Well… er -”
“Expecting a rescue is beyond hope under the circumstances!” Sam Barthoff, ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS Every leader should also be under a leader
SUNDAY ADELAJA Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
MARISHA PESSL Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see fail...
EARL BLUMENAUER People live under continued and planned discrimination when it comes to the economy, education and j...
ALI HAIDER Write a program in efficient way as you write for kernel scheduler
AHMAD MOAWAD I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed...
RICHARD EYRE It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetit...
ARNE GARBORG The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools ar...
JAMES PATTERSON This is the last hurrah for the current architecture. The next version of Microsoft's consumer opera...
CHRIS LE TOCQ When I harvest my life right up to the edges, I have collected every last kernel of blessing.
ERIN M. STRAZA Quite frankly, I shouldn't have even been in the playoff. I figured the guys would probably get to a...
TIGER WOODS Frankly, the firehouses were closed under your watch, they should not have been and they should be o...
ANTHONY WEINER Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then...
HUSTON SMITH One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made...
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as ...
BIBLE Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far...
AIMEE MULLINS We are still in the preliminary phases of the general outlook of the torch relay but the route is no...
JACQUES ROGGE It is the entire euro zone system which is under threat at the moment, not just a few small countrie...
IVETA RADICOVA All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when ...
ANNE BRONTë I respect both Peter and Brock as fighters, but Audley was the gold medal winner in 2000. Quite fran...
DAN GOOSSEN I'm disappointed. Quite frankly, I've known Sarah for a year now and it's gotten a little personal. ...
DAVID HOFFMAN His face spreads into a warm smile. “As a matter of fact, no, I have never slept under the stars �...
J.A. REDMERSKI was told by Colonel Warren, the JAG officer for General Sanchez, that they weren't assigned to me, t...
JANIS KARPINSKI Fare you well, my lord, and believe this of me: there can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS When we do the regular tests on a sample that contains THG we don't see it, ... It disintegrates. It...
DON CATLIN Maybe there were some answers, but they were not in the files.
BRUCE MYERS Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON The board and officers are very involved, and some employees felt it was not appropriate and chose n...
DEBORAH SEXTON For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the...
ISMAIL KADARE Mungu anataka tuwe na mtazamo wa ‘kila kitu kinawezekana juu ya jua’ na si ‘kila kitu kinaweze...
ENOCK MAREGESI [Hudson put himself in the playoff a difficult spot when, from the middle of the fairway, he pulled ...
ALEX ADAMS The hardest part (of the research) is that it's done outside under natural conditions that are chang...
WILLIAM MANNING If Microsoft were to provide excellent installation, setup, and support for Linux, Microsoft would p...
BRIAN LIVINGSTON There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
JULIO DAVILA We wrapped all these technologies into a common platform. We took all the open source pieces, versio...
WINSTON DAMARILLO In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they onl...
MIGUEL DE ICAZA The crew cannot be blamed as the thread design on the wheel nut is not designed for tyre changing un...
JACK CUNNINGHAM Not under man but under God and law.
HENRY DE BRACTON This country is full of great courses, many of which are not promoted, but are superb, ... And, ther...
JAMES KENNY We don't think of ourselves as just a tool vendor anymore. Tools are just kernel technologies that s...
STEVE SVOBODA [Sun] likes Linux in general because every Linux socket taken up is not an NT socket. Plus, they wan...
KIMBALL BROWN All the normal people of the ages and generations that contribute to helping and doing their bit for...
GARY F EVANS... Life is the everlasting gobstopper with its complications of the starter being birth, the main cours...
GARY F EVANS... The Word of God must always be heard quite specifically and in a new way, varying according to the c...
J. L. HROMADKA I see nothing. I do not move. It is an empty time, animal time, vigilant, I am submerged, under the ...
HéLèNE CIXOUS I'm not really interested in clothes. Mainly, I like wearing clothes that don't make me stan...
DAVID CAMERON Now the next question is, Can we get justice in Pennsylvania? I'm hoping that there's a little kerne...
GENE STILP Version 2 has now been running for [nearly] 15 years without substantial modification. It [GPL 2] ha...
EBEN MOGLEN Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off
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