&gt; why hasn&#x27;t Torwalds spawned a Linux license he&#x27;s fully on board with?<p>Changing a licence in an open source project can be difficult. Unless you&#x27;ve specifically had all contributors sign away their ownership of their contribution, then you can&#x27;t change the licence without their permission, as they&#x27;ve only given permission for their contribution to be used under the current licence.
When you have 1000s of contributors, the problem swiftly becomes impractical to solve.<p>I&#x27;m not aware of whether the linux kernel asks contributors to give up their rights in such a way, or otherwise has some provision for changing the licence terms.