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Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

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Linus Torvalds
Jun 14, 2007

“I’m damn fed up with the FSF being the ‘protector of freedoms,’
and also feeling that they can define what those freedoms mean.

“The GPLv2 is a legal license. And no, the FSF doesn’t
get to define what the words mean to suit their agenda…”

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