corporations that would ban Linux from their network
You can’t change the license retroactively. Corporations would likely hard-fork the kernel at the last GPL2 commit and move it to a restricted but compliant access model like Red Hat did.
You can change the license moving forward though it takes a tremendous amount of effort.
Only rich companies have dedicated full time kernel developers. The vast majority literally take full advantage of the fact that the kernel is free (gratis). And any changes they make to the GPL2 kernel is still subject to open source disclosure.
I believe Torvalds has publicly stated that he wouldn’t support a move to GPL3, let alone AGPL.
You can’t change the license retroactively. Corporations would likely hard-fork the kernel at the last GPL2 commit and move it to a restricted but compliant access model like Red Hat did.
You can change the license moving forward though it takes a tremendous amount of effort.
Only rich companies have dedicated full time kernel developers. The vast majority literally take full advantage of the fact that the kernel is free (gratis). And any changes they make to the GPL2 kernel is still subject to open source disclosure.
I believe Torvalds has publicly stated that he wouldn’t support a move to GPL3, let alone AGPL.