From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 22 12:55:30 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93358106564A for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 12:55:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f209.google.com (mail-ew0-f209.google.com [209.85.219.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 235FF8FC0C for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 12:55:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy1 with SMTP id 1so285329ewy.13 for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 05:55:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KweVJDfmKF+CZD8IvnzerXEvEvOM+ggpwkfKUiLYRhA=; b=YqZvcldJLEoLMzPQ6RJxeM1yyQlngR+Qxvub5hX//D7q/QBI5WBjOFX2WQ2ePPc+Px uq1JbJALZJyi2ri5Yho9vSz6okzoeSI2f4YJDQug7ImTLuoqiRnNETnBiqiHiVubm98b q+dYizX/YmdD17U6eDl/WpI3LcNLqwoEHp0CQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=VNAfwboUvrPzpow76Ace7OQSfD6+j9liaFDM/SPZcWg2PUY2rMsspwaY27v3rhWkXQ mMkCTnFtH49th8lT8dbFYNB4u+tYBEQpPumnJJLW6IuwWeTlRVNrDconm7XqbzJ94jIk Lg7dCchEDeL3y4OQDjVP7eohlt0I7FT1ioR4Y= Received: by 10.213.63.13 with SMTP id z13mr1022377ebh.21.1274532929009; Sat, 22 May 2010 05:55:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm975760ewy.14.2010.05.22.05.55.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 22 May 2010 05:55:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 13:55:26 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100522135526.580642d7@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <50B3A5560BA4D74CADEC55A48B4641B23D5119D0BA@EMBX01-HQ.jnpr.net> References: <50B3A5560BA4D74CADEC55A48B4641B23D5119D0BA@EMBX01-HQ.jnpr.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i386-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Common OS/kernel code between freebsd and linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 12:55:30 -0000 On Sat, 22 May 2010 05:09:31 -0700 Anjali Kulkarni wrote: > I am not sure the right forum to ask this question - is there any > effort done to find portable code between different OSes, > particularly freebsd and linux? BSD code has been used in most operating systems due to its open licence, but it's very awkward to mix GNU/Linux GPLed code with BSD code without the whole thing ending up GPLed.