Torvald&#x27;s has said in the past he won&#x27;t ever change the license of Linux.<p>The GPL normally has a clause that says the source code has to be licensed under &quot;this license or a newer version of the GPL&quot;. Projects that have moved from GPLv2 to GPLv3 did so because of this clause in the license. Torvalds specifically removed this clause.<p>I doubt Torvalds is concerned about whether or not users can use ZFS. He&#x27;s defended the existence of closed source kernel modules (ex graphics drivers, network drivers). There&#x27;s even the quote in the article that Torvald&#x27;s didn&#x27;t consider Andrew File System derivative of the kernel. Further, users can use ZFS-FUSE; there&#x27;s no question that ZFS-FUSE doesn&#x27;t infringe. Finally, Oracle owns sole copyright to ZFS; they can re-licence it.<p>Linux will never move from GPLv2  and I&#x27;d be really surprised if Torvalds saw the ZFS issue as a problem with the GPLv2 and not an Oracle problem.