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.

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Not true

The only condition is that CCDL and GPL don’t apply to the same file. Wifi works just fine and the source code isn’t GPL yet wifi drivers are in the kernel…

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/2094/are-cddl-and-gpl-really-incompatible

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…because they are incompatible licenses.

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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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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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