Similar to the (Open)AFS situation [LWN.net]

Similar to the (Open)AFS situation

Posted Sep 15, 2008 12:19 UTC (Mon) by robbe (guest, #16131)
In reply to: Similar to the (Open)AFS situation by utoddl
Parent article: DRI, BSD, and Linux

> There's no way to relicense the code, and some Linux kernel folks have
> been borderline hostile to the idea of even allowing the OpenAFS kernel
> module to be linked/loaded into the GPLed Linux kernel; there's no way
> to bring the existing OpenAFS kernel module in-tree.

With OpenAFS apperently being under the IBM Public License 1.0
(GPL-incompatible according to the FSF) this is not that surprising.

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