From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using GPL'd Linux drivers with non-GPL, binary-only kernel
Date: 07 May 2003 09:50:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1of2e92no.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030507143148.GB16023@mail.jlokier.co.uk>
Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> writes:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > I'll just pause to point out that the single most successful TCP stack
> > has to be the BSD one - which started off as DARPA-funded research, and got
> > lots of feedback in spite of its license.
>
> I disagree. Many of the most successful TCP stacks _forked_ from the
> BSD one at some time or other (e.g. SunOS, Microsoft), but then they
> evolved in their own directions, with their unique quirks.
And that ultimate fate and people shutting up has created a number of
advocates for the GPL. And at the very least people will now insist
on getting the source and the writes to modify and share their modifications
of the source. To some extent this is behind the large national labs
wanting Linux on their supercomputers.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-07 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-06 16:42 Using GPL'd Linux drivers with non-GPL, binary-only kernel Jamie Lokier
2003-05-06 17:35 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-06 18:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-05-06 19:28 ` Jean-Marc Lienher
2003-05-06 19:53 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-06 22:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-05-06 21:38 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-08 21:36 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-06 19:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-05-06 21:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-05-06 22:21 ` David Schwartz
2003-05-07 8:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-05-07 14:25 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-05-07 14:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-05-07 15:50 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2003-05-06 20:43 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-06 22:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-05-06 21:31 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-06 22:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-05-07 12:20 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-07 14:26 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-05-07 15:18 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-08 11:11 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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[not found] ` <20030506193019$0d29@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20030506220018$5b96@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-05-07 1:17 ` Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler
[not found] <BKEGKPICNAKILKJKMHCAAEBCCLAA.Riley@Williams.Name>
2003-05-07 16:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-05-09 1:23 Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-13 9:08 Dean McEwan
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