> We're already there, anyway. Proprietary drivers are super common not just in Android, but across embedded devices everywhere. Some companies just flagrantly violate the GPL, and little ever comes of it.

Sometimes I wonder if Linus could go back and do it over, if he would license Linux under the BSD license instead of GPL. He's never seemed like a particular stickler for free software ideology, and has welcomed connections between Linux and industry. I don't know that it bothers him that much to see Linux used in proprietary software.

Not trying to start a flame war over licenses here, just speculating. And maybe this could be easily refuted by a link to one of his email rants, who knows.