Richard M. Stallman wrote: > *BSD and Linux don't belong in the same list, because *BSD are > operating systems. Linux, however, is just a kernel. If you're > thinking of the operating system in which Linux is used, then what > you've said is an understatement. That system is not just cooperating > with our work, it basically *is* our work. It is a variant of the GNU > system. See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html for more > explanation.
Because I principally do kernel programming, I was thinking specifically of the Linux and BSD kernels. Many of the kernel hackers contribute code to both projects even though they reside under different licenses, namely the GPL and BSD licenses. I should have been more explicit. Yet, I seem to have missed the forest for the trees I'm inhabiting. Indeed, the cross pollination at the operating system level makes an even stronger case for compatibility between the GPL and CDDL licenses. In the GNU/Linux forest, we should all make a conscious effort to refer to the kernel as Linux and the operating system as GNU/Linux. I will redouble my efforts. Unfortunately, falling into the Linux Vernacular of calling the operating system merely Linux comes easily in the Linux forest. Regards, Rob _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
