Re: Using GPL'd Linux drivers with non-GPL, binary-only kernel

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
07 May 2003 10:57:41 -0600


"Riley Williams" <Riley@Williams.Name> writes:

> Hi Eric.
>
> >> 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.
>
> Do you have any web pointers relating to this issue or those advocates?

That enumerates these issues no. From a practical standpoint
on systems built or proposed, I can here are a couple.

http://www.llnl.gov/linux/mcr
Position #5 on the top500 list
http://top500.org/list/2002/11/
see the ASCI Purple RFP:
http://www.llnl.gov/asci/purple/

http://www.lanl.gov/projects/pink/

Eric
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