There’s been some Friday night kernel drama on the Linux kernel mailing list… Linus Torvalds has expressed regrets for merging the Bcachefs file-system and an ensuing back-and-forth between the file-system maintainer.

  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Not under a license which prohibits also licensing under the GPL. i.e. it has no conditions beyond what the GPL specifies.

        • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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          3 months ago

          There’s no requirement for them to apply to the same file? There’s already blobs in the kernel the gpl doesn’t apply to the source of

          • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
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            3 months ago

            The question was “How do you define GPL compatible?”. The answer to that question has nothing to do with code being split between files. Two licenses are incompatible if they can’t both apply at the same time to the same thing.

            • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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              3 months ago

              The two works can live harmoniously together in the same repo, therefore, not incompatible by one definition and the one that matters.

              There’s already big organisations doing it and they haven’t had any issues