[OpenIndiana-discuss] [smartos-discuss] Re: [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

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Basically GPL is an anathema to any project that doesn't share their ideology that ALL software must be free. 

In many ways this is actually MORE restrictive than even proprietary code.  

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> On May 21, 2014, at 7:15 AM, "Joe Landman via smartos-discuss" <smartos-discuss at lists.smartos.org> wrote:
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>> On 05/21/2014 10:05 AM, Zhiwen Zheng via smartos-discuss wrote:
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>> 在 2014-5-21 上午12:15，"Keith Wesolowski" <keith.wesolowski at joyent.com
>> <mailto:keith.wesolowski at joyent.com>>写道：
>> >
>> > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:30:13PM +0800, Zhiwen Zheng wrote:
>> >
>> > > I tried to add suport for adaptec 6805H following the linux pm8001
>> driver.
>> >
>> > Before I read the patch, I need to know whether you cut and pasted even
>> > a single line of code from the Linux driver.  In general, you really
>> > want to do work like this from a PRM or from a BSD driver, never Linux.
>> no cut and paste from linux.
>> I want to ask why not linux?
>> thanks
> 
> License issues.  The Linux GPLv2 license sticks to "derivative" works. Which means *if* (hypothetically) the illumos driver is "derived" from the Linux driver, it counts as a derived work, and could potentially cause licensing issues throughout the illumos code.
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> I wish it were not the case, as there are Linux drivers I really want in illumos, but without doing a clean-room creation (e.g. start from a written spec with no code transcription/transliteration), porting drivers from Linux to illumos (or any other BSD/MIT/CDDL system) is not a good thing to do.   Linux license won't change, and the BSD/MIT/CDDL licenses and code using them won't change.
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