Will linux kernel move to GPL 3?

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The Linux kernel mailing list started discussing about adopting the GPL3. Leading Linux developers are divided on whether Linux kernel should use the GNU General Public License version 3 or not. The discussion is started although the GPL3 is only a draft. The final version should be released in 2007.

Here are the main thoughts from some developers:

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Linux Kernel release 2.6.15

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The Linux kernel 2.6.15 is released yesterday.
In this version of the kernel there are 889 files added (472073 lines of code), 512 deleted (325233 lines of code) and 6327 changed.

Note: In the 2.6 kernel it is generally preferred to build the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS so that it produces readable dumps that can be used as-is (this also produces better output than ksymoops).

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