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by richardfontana 3129 days ago
As the Red Hat FAQ (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/gplv3-enforcement-statement) says:

Q: Why didn’t you simply relicense your GPLv2 projects under GPLv3 and let the community benefit from the cure approach that way?

A: In many cases, this would not be possible or practical. For example, we couldn’t relicense our Linux kernel contributions under GPLv3, because the overall license of the Linux kernel is “GPLv2 only”.