Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030514AbWI0SBr (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:01:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030517AbWI0SBr (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:01:47 -0400 Received: from THUNK.ORG ([69.25.196.29]:50100 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030514AbWI0SBq (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:01:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:01:29 -0400 From: Theodore Tso To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Sergey Panov , James Bottomley , linux-kernel Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement Message-ID: <20060927180129.GA7469@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Tso , Jan Engelhardt , Sergey Panov , James Bottomley , linux-kernel References: <1158941750.3445.31.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <1159319508.16507.15.camel@sipan.sipan.org> <1159342569.2653.30.camel@sipan.sipan.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1063 Lines: 22 On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:58:41AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >... ???. I am not so sure. Kernel is really a small thing. The VMWare > >proprietary hyper-visor was/is reusing Linux drivers with ease, why BSD or > >Hurd can not do the same? As a former (Linux) driver writer I like to show the > >following numbers to my friends: > > Oh well I was rather interpreting the question as "What about Hurd?" and > my answer was the same from the Hurd page last time I read it. > "It's not so complete to make up a production system." or similar. Well, that will be very simple. If the Hurd gets relicensed to be GPLv3, it won't be able to use Linux kernel device drivers any more, because they will be GPLv2, and the GPLv2 and GPLv3 licenses are incompatible. But that's the FSF's problem, not ours... - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/