<i>in this context, Oracle could make everyone&#x27;s life easier by waving their magic relicensing wand.</i><p>Well, so could the linux developers by relicensing to MIT.  That&#x27;s not much of an argument.<p>Additionally, I&#x27;d still love to see an actual court case with regards to the GPL here.  Licensing is always murky, because almost none of it has been tested directly in the courts.  Thus the only legal opinions we have are from people who have a vested interest in the outcome one way or another.  Let a court solve it once and for all please.  In particular, I&#x27;d love to have a 100% lock on whether a binary module that links to the kernel is actually a derivative work or not.