Another push for sched

Another push for sched_ext

Posted May 11, 2024 1:07 UTC (Sat) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Another push for sched_ext by NYKevin
Parent article: Another push for sched_ext

> Is it legal to make a modified version of the BPF verifier which does not reject non-GPL-licensed programs?

This feels more like a DMCA kind of thing to me.

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Another push for sched_ext

Posted May 11, 2024 8:39 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

There's another point here too.

Are BPF programs distributed as source? I thought the kernel ran them through a jit compiler?

Because we have the problem there that the GPL is not a particularly suitable licence for stuff distributed as source, about the only Freedom you're missing is the ability to distribute - the mere fact it's source gives you everything else.

Oh - and by the way, does it REALLY refuse to run anything that's not GPL2? What about BSD? MIT? MPL2? PD etc?

Cheers,
Wol