Sounds like FUD [LWN.net]

Sounds like FUD

Posted Jan 16, 2007 21:19 UTC (Tue) by dougm (subscriber, #4615)
In reply to: Sounds like FUD by pr1268
Parent article: Sun to release OpenSolaris under GPL version 3 (Linux-Watch)

Luckily Linus and the other contributors to the kernel have made it clear that making system calls
from userspace does not create a derived work of the kernel. Thus there should be nothing (that I
know of) preventing a GPL2 Linux kernel running under GPL3 libc/samba/etc.

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Sounds like FUD

Posted Jan 16, 2007 22:17 UTC (Tue) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]

True, but the OpenSolaris kernel source, being GPL3, may not be usable in Linux.

Sounds like FUD

Posted Jan 16, 2007 22:41 UTC (Tue) by dougm (subscriber, #4615) [Link]

Quite right, this could limit cross-fertilization between the kernels. On the other hand, I don't think
there's anything to prevent the Linux developers from taking design ideas from Solaris (and vice
versa) and re-implementing them in their own context (which would probably have to be done
anyway since the kernels have a lot of differences).

Sounds like FUD

Posted Jan 17, 2007 15:49 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

True, but the OpenSolaris kernel source, being GPL3, may not be usable in Linux.

Yup. And it's THE reason for Sun to use GPLv3 and not GPLv2... Think about it...