On 05/21/2014 10:24 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
Basically GPL is an anathema to any project that doesn't share their ideology that ALL software must be free.
I'd probably restate that is "... must be free in the same way."
In many ways this is actually MORE restrictive than even proprietary code.
I don't think its *more* restrictive than closed/proprietary code, but it is more restrictive than "do anything you want with it as long as you give us credit" code (ala BSD/MIT/...)
This said, I've found this situation to be somewhat ironic. Maddening might be a better adjective though, when considering drivers. Happily many OEMs are building for the BSDs, so this conversion shouldn't be too terrible.
To the specific case in point, we do try to work with a number of OEMs to get their drivers updated and into the illumos kernel. They can choose to multiply license their own code (Areca does dual/multi licensing, adaptec does not) or not.
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