This is purely a technical question from a legal angle, personal whims and
opinions are not relevant on this one.
If Linus did switch the GPLv3, would that force him to make all releases with
all code contained therein 100% open source?
I am asking this from a OpenBSD perspective in that it is a lot easier to
maintain a complete operating system that is purely open source with zero
binary blobs thrown in the mix. I don't consider Linux a complete operating
system since the people with commit access to kernel source as well as
libraries are not the same ones who put out installable releases for the end
user like the BSD's do. Linux is not centralized like the BSD's, that is why
it is false to call each of the BSD's a distribution, they are each their own
complete operating system.
But I look at projects like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Replicant, Trisquel,
Parabola, and with all of them being 100% open source in terms of what's
included in the installation, and that they are a lot better for security and
anonymity or privacy. So this got me to wondering, if Linus did switch to
GPLv3, and I know full well there would be all kinds of fallout as a result
of it, but if Torvalds did change the license would that physically force all
Linux distributions and all Linux based development to be 100% open source?
For technical reasons I do not care about if something is "free" as much as I
care about if something is open source or not.
