Hi, This mail is based on the recent bug-hurd thread of missing features of Hurd: USB, SATA, sound, wireless, modern processors, etc. This question comes up every time somebody mention the usability of Hurd (except the inherent slowness)
According to my findings Hurd is licensed as GPL v2 only http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/users-guide/using_gnuhurd.html#GNU-General-Public-License same as GNU/Linux even if it is a GNU project. This means that Linux code could in theory be used if the copyright holders of the Linux code agrees to transfer copyrights to GNU for the relevant parts. Alternately, in case Hurd was re-licensed to GPL v2+ or v3+, code from other GNU projects could be re-used to speed up development of the Hurd feature-wise. What are the problems of increasing code reuse between projects, the main idea with GPL is to enhance the freedom of the users. Following many project mailing lists, for me especially GNU projects, there seems to be little or no interaction between the developers in different projects! I'm looking forward to install Hurd on real hardware, not only emulated, and be able to use it also for day-to-day use. Porting of the Debian installer to Hurd is a large step forward. Thanks, Svante Signell
