Linux (Linus T himself iirc) is very GPLv2.
They are not onboard with the innovation that was GPLv3. That innovation was mostly about software patents iirc. But the result was also that big corps liked GPLv3 even less than GPLv2.
On top of that it was going to be very hard (near impossible) to get all devs to agree to a v2->v3 license bump.
> They are not onboard with the innovation that was GPLv3. That innovation was mostly about software patents iirc
I think what Linus is against in the GPLv3 is mostly the anti-tivoisation mechanisms. He wants tivoisation as a feature for the Linux kernel.
Some contributors were already dead by the time the decision would have come to a head. Getting them to sign an agreement would have been challenging.
As a gplv3 advocate, I disagree. Anti-Tivoisation is thr main innovation of gplv3
> On top of that it was going to be very hard (near impossible) to get all devs to agree to a v2->v3 license bump.
My understanding was this was never a problem, almost all of the kernel was licensed as "GPL2 or newer" until GPL3 was released and they removed the "or newer" from new releases
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