Merging bcachefs

Posted Jun 19, 2023 13:01 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Merging bcachefs by developer122
Parent article: Merging bcachefs

> Portability of filesystems, especially good ones, across different OSs is really helpful.

GPL license doesn't prevent portability and nothing is stopping any BSD based system from making it available for their OS. Many of them ship with Linux compatibility layers to aid with this.

> The GPL-supremacy and Sun/Oracle-Hate fuelled comments above are very disappointing.

Many BSD proponents won't even accept that GPL and AGPL are free and open source licenses and insist that only permissive licenses are truly free, so this goes both ways. Sun and Oracle aren't the same thing in this context. The licensing decisions for OpenSolaris were exclusively done by Sun (and several Sun people readily acknowledge that the engineers there were GPL hostile). However independent of all of this, Oracle's history towards other open source projects (Java lawsuit, silently canceling OpenSolaris, Hudson governance etc) has enough there to explain the hostility.