An anonymous reader writes:
Linus Torvalds is once again coming out against the upcoming GPL 3.0 rev to the open-source license. In a short email interview with IWeek blogger Charlie Babcock, Torvalds places himself firmly in favor of the existing GPLv2 license, and against Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, who are the main proponents behind GPLv3.Here are Torvalds comments: "I absolutely love the GPLv2 because it embodies that 'develop in the open' model," Torvalds noted. Also this: "He [Torvalds] notes GPLv3 has been criticized as a Free Software Foundation political platform. He agrees and quarrels with FSF's conception of "proprietary software as being something evil and immoral. Me, I just don't care about proprietary software. It's not evil or immoral. It just doesn't matter." Finally, Torvalds said: "The GPLv2 is something that you can agree to despite different politics and that's something I think the Linux community has been very good at."
Do you think Torvalds' opposition will cause a protracted battle over GPLv3? And how can this be a good thing for the open-source community?