The C|Net News subhead tells the story:

The second draft of a revised General Public License has been released, but Linus Torvalds--founder and leader of [Linux], the best-known software project governed by the GPL, remains unconvinced of its merits.

As was true of the earlier draft of v3, Torvalds' concerns focus on the DRM provisions, as discussed here yesterday.

In one respect, though, Torvalds seems overly optimistic. He thinks he can hold himself, and Linux, apart from any undesirable changes in the GPL:

Linux, however, is not likely to be affected by the changes in GPLv3. Torvalds explicitly chose to license the operating system kernel under version 2--not version 2 or later as the Free Software Foundation suggests. "In a very real sense, the Linux kernel is perhaps the least relevant of all the projects that use the GPL when it comes to the new version," Torvalds said.

But the kernel of Linux, while crucial, is only a part of any complete Linux distribution, so other crucial code in a distribution might well be covered by the new license terms even if the kernel is not. The result may be a kind of super-forking of code, where users must maintain a database that shows line-by-line what code is covered by what version of the GPL, and whether the individual code writer added any terms that that affect Applications Service Providers, as would be permitted by GPLv3.

For lots of earlier IPCentral discussion of the issue, search the blog for GPLv3.