Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756382AbXFLIi2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:38:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753819AbXFLIiF (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:38:05 -0400 Received: from lsd-gw.ic.unicamp.br ([143.106.7.165]:44594 "EHLO boneca.lsd.ic.unicamp.br" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752992AbXFLIiB (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:38:01 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2972 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:38:00 EDT To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Tarkan Erimer , Linus Torvalds , debian developer , "david\@lang.hm" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Greg KH Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 References: <20070609071231.GL2649@lug-owl.de> <466BB9B0.5030908@netone.net.tr> <466BCBBC.90305@netone.net.tr> <466C0901.4000405@netone.net.tr> <466D0A12.5030607@netone.net.tr> <20070611090348.GA18894@elte.hu> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:32:48 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20070611090348.GA18894@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Mon\, 11 Jun 2007 11\:03\:48 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1156 Lines: 24 On Jun 11, 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > And that's i guess what OpenSolaris lacks and which i suspect it is > mostly interested in: lots of nice Linux drivers ;-) XFS, the > largest Linux filesystem is 100K lines of code - and ZFS (i've never > seen it) is very likely smaller than that. Linux drivers on the > other hand, as of today, are _3.7 million_ lines of code and enable > Linux to run on 99% of the hardware that is produced today. Guess > which one has the larger strategic significance? ;-) Per this reasoning, Sun wouldn't be waiting for GPLv3, and it would have already released the OpenSolaris kernel under GPLv2, would it not? ;-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} - 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/