Torvalds Says No to GPL 3 for Linux

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) regards digital-rights management (DRM) systems as imposing unnecessary restrictions on software users. "As a campaign to limit users' rights, the adoption of DRM is fundamentally at odds with the spirit of the free software movement," the FSF wrote in a document about the new GPL draft. "Our aim is, and must be, the abolition of DRM as a social practice."

Linus Torvalds, the developer of the Linux kernel, has publicly stated his opposition to the digital-rights management (DRM) provisions that have been proposed for the new version of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The GPL is used by many open-source software developers.

"Conversion isn't going to happen," Torvalds wrote. "I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code."