To: "Riley Williams" <Riley@Williams.Name>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Using GPL'd Linux drivers with non-GPL, binary-only kernel
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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 07 May 2003 10:57:41 -0600
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"Riley Williams" <Riley@Williams.Name> writes:

> Hi Eric.
> 
>  >> I disagree.  Many of the most successful TCP stacks _forked_ from the
>  >> BSD one at some time or other (e.g. SunOS, Microsoft), but then they
>  >> evolved in their own directions, with their unique quirks.
> 
>  > And that ultimate fate and people shutting up has created a number of
>  > advocates for the GPL.  And at the very least people will now insist
>  > on getting the source and the writes to modify and share their 
>  > modifications of the source.  To some extent this is behind the large
>  > national labs wanting Linux on their supercomputers.  
> 
> Do you have any web pointers relating to this issue or those advocates?

That enumerates these issues no.  From a practical standpoint
on systems built or proposed, I can here are a couple.

>From Lawrence Livermore National Labs see MCR:
http://www.llnl.gov/linux/mcr  
Position #5 on the top500 list
http://top500.org/list/2002/11/ 
see the ASCI Purple RFP:
http://www.llnl.gov/asci/purple/

>From Los Alamos National Labs see Pink:
http://www.lanl.gov/projects/pink/

Eric
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