[renewiltord]

Well, they're not going to send in any more work that requires this standard of debugging, so the kernel will remain insecure in those ways. That isn't great, but perhaps we'll each just have our own preferred kernel flavors like how a bunch of us would use Con Kolivas's alternate scheduler back in the day.

And that way, forks being present, attribution is required for copyright and hence, copyleft.

[jacquesm]

And that's precisely the bit that the OP omitted.