There’s been some Friday night kernel drama on the Linux kernel mailing list… Linus Torvalds has expressed regrets for merging the Bcachefs file-system and an ensuing back-and-forth between the file-system maintainer.

  • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    There’s no requirement for them to apply to the same file? There’s already blobs in the kernel the gpl doesn’t apply to the source of

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      2 months ago

      The question was “How do you define GPL compatible?”. The answer to that question has nothing to do with code being split between files. Two licenses are incompatible if they can’t both apply at the same time to the same thing.

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        2 months ago

        The two works can live harmoniously together in the same repo, therefore, not incompatible by one definition and the one that matters.

        There’s already big organisations doing it and they haven’t had any issues