Its hard to say with any amount of certainty what the 15000 developers from practically every country in the world believes in regard to copyright.
FSF and the SF Conservancy is attempting to try to bring a consensus to that issue, but that too is a contentious discussion. Some vocal developers has some views, the Linus Torvald has his, the Linux Foundation has theirs, and not counting everyone else which has a stake in the issue. In general it seems that the overall ecosystem seek compliance but I suspect even the effort to try establishing that as a consensus and have it written down as an official policy of the project would be an uphill battle.
An interesting aspect that this judge brought on is the statement that the 15000 developers should not be considered co-authors of the linux kernel as a whole but rather defined in the German law as "editing authors" with limited rights compared to co-authors. It might mean that Linus, if any, is the only one that can make enforcement for the project as a whole.
FSF and the SF Conservancy is attempting to try to bring a consensus to that issue, but that too is a contentious discussion. Some vocal developers has some views, the Linus Torvald has his, the Linux Foundation has theirs, and not counting everyone else which has a stake in the issue. In general it seems that the overall ecosystem seek compliance but I suspect even the effort to try establishing that as a consensus and have it written down as an official policy of the project would be an uphill battle.
An interesting aspect that this judge brought on is the statement that the 15000 developers should not be considered co-authors of the linux kernel as a whole but rather defined in the German law as "editing authors" with limited rights compared to co-authors. It might mean that Linus, if any, is the only one that can make enforcement for the project as a whole.