[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If you port a driver you should take into account the license such > > driver use. IMHO the Hurd should go towards full GPLv3 compatibility. > > Currently the drivers live in GNU Mach, which is a dependency of the > actual Hurd, but otherwise they are quite disconnected. The license of > Mach does not affect the license of Hurd and vice versa. > > Note that the Mach code is actually BSD-licensed, and we have no > intention of changing this -- most of the code is not written by us > anyways. Thus, GPLv3 compatibility for GNU Mach seems rather > meaningless...
All this is good news for a Hurd GPLv3 compatible. > It would be a whole different story of course if we started to run > drivers in user space, making them part of the Hurd proper.
