There's no real way Linus can "lose" and the only person fighting is Stallman. Forcibly renaming our architecture GNU/Linux or Linux/GNU is not appreciated by many of us. Contrast XEmacs' behavior regarding architecture (which I had control over at the time) with other software projects using GNU configure.
The core Linux kernel developers do not drink FSF/Richard Stallman koolaid and the copyright to the code is owned by too many people (some of them now dead, alas) to get permission from everyone to change the license now.
“There’s no real way Linus can “lose””.
Yes there is. As one developer put it to me, if all of the libraries are GPL 3, how long can Linus hold out and keep Linux v2? If Stallman convinces a majority of devs to pressure Torvalds (or even rebel against him), how long until he folds?