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Re:60x speed-up of Linux “perf” by Someone on Thursday September 09, 2021 @03:38PM (#28473758)
“Linux releases as GPLv2 or later for example”

Linux doesn’t use “or later”. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/COPYING:

The Linux Kernel is provided under:

  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note
Being under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, according with:

  LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
With an explicit syscall exception, as stated at:

  LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note
In addition, other licenses may also apply. Please see:

  Documentation/process/license-rules.rst
for more details.

All contributions to the Linux Kernel are subject to this COPYING file.

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