you are going to find both camps (and everything in between) as well as people who see nothing wrong with proprietary software involved with any open/free software project. The bigger the project, the more variation you will see.

The kernel is GPLv2, so there are not big discussions about it except sometimes at the edge where interfacing with third party software.

David Lang

On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Andrew Stephenson wrote:

Ah, so there is a Free Software camp and an Open Source camp within the Linux 
Kernel Mailing List.

On 2 Apr 2014, at 11:45 am, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote:

There is no concensus, some people are working hard to do so, others love GPLv3

David Lang

On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Andrew Stephenson wrote:

Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 10:26:44 +1100
From: Andrew Stephenson <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Replacing GNU
What is the consensus on replacing GNU with software that won't become GPLv3 in 
the future, with the latest gcc for example.
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