Sudhakar Chandrasekharan proclaimed:
> The core kernel code of Linux was written without any propreitary stuff in
> it. Remember that many of the commercial unices (Sun OS, for example) are
> based on code that was available openly from BSD.
I forgot to add one thing:
I say "without any propreitary stuff in it" and not "from scratch". The
BSD Compressiong stuff in the kernel, for example, comes from the BSD
effort.
% head /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/bsd_comp.c
/* Because this code is derived from the 4.3BSD compress source:
*
* Copyright (c) 1985, 1986 The Regents of the University of California.
* All rights reserved.
*
* This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
* James A. Woods, derived from original work by Spencer Thomas
* and Joseph Orost.
I am not sure about the legal issues here. This is the case of a GPL
software having parts in it that are distributed under BSD license.
Manoj & Arun, I have a question (please followup in LIG). Can GPL code
contain BSD parts in it? Is it not true to say that the linux kernel is
"mostly distributed under GPL"?
Thaths
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