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Stallman claims that once code is licensed under the GPL, it can't be revoked:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18081199

Which kind of makes sense, since anyone who currently has a valid license to use the code (anyone running Linux) has all the source and can legally redistribute or modify it, based on the terms of their current license.

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Where would it be stored these days to be publicly accessible? Microsoft owns GitHub and I bet it made Torvalds unhappy.

I don't follow - what does Github and its ownership have to do with anything? I could be wrong, but I was under the impression Linus mirrors on Github just for convience's sake.

I do know that Linus's Github repo is not the official public repository for the kernel -- that's kernel.org's job. And FWIW, relations between the Linux and MS kernel devs have (to my understanding) never been better, especially since the Spectre/Meltdown reveals.

GPL2 vs GPL3

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