I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.

— Linus Torvalds, RE: The GPL: No shelter for the Linux kernel? (2006)

Source: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Pine.LNX.4.64.0609221357210.4388@g5.osdl.org/

A 2006 reply in a linux-kernel thread about the GPL.

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