Tag: LINUS TORVALDS

Andrew Morton, current maintainer of the Linux kernel, has accepted a job offer from Google. Morton dropped the news on a Linux kernel mailing list, explaining that he wants to be involved with Linux and people that use Linux all day every day. Google is starting to become a major player in the Linux development area, and the open-source software industry in general. This hiring move proves they ...

Linus Torvalds, creator of the most famous GPL software project ever, has stated on several occasions that the Linux kernel will never be released under GPLv3, the next version of the GNU General Public License currently under development. NewsForge has rounded up a couple of Torvalds' posts to the Linux Kernel Mailing List in which he describes some of his objections to the new version of the ...