Relicensing: what's legal and what's right

Posted Sep 6, 2007 1:00 UTC (Thu) by proski (guest, #104)
In reply to: Relicensing: what's legal and what's right by evgeny
Parent article: Relicensing: what's legal and what's right

Yes, that's what I'm saying. It's just not worth the trouble to replace any deep Linux internals with the BSD code, even if the BSD code is better. Even in the case of drivers it's only the code dealing with the hardware that is going to be shared.

Actually, I think that the drivers are more likely to be dual licensed because it's unlikely that they will be closed sourced. What company would need to close source of the Atheros driver? On the other hand, more generic code will likely stay under GPL only because the risk of closing it would be higher if it were dual-licensed.