Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:20:27 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> Cc: GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-VS-Linux---Some Venting from Linux's side! Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101252119470.4851-100000@rac2.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <0101251658280C.25766@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com>
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They didn't reall cut 'n paste.. but used the same ideas... so you can't really exactly just grep through the code, but Linus himself has said that that's where the ideas come from. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Tim McMillen wrote: > > You know, everybody says this, that Linux uses the FreeBSD tcp/ip stack > and other things, but no one seems to verify it. Has anyone actually > looked into the code? It shouldn't be very hard to grep through the > code and see. If they don't mention the copyright and they use the > code, then that's illegal, and I can't picture them doing that, they're > quite serious about their GPL, and it's implications. > If they didn't actually use any of the code, but instead rewrote > similiar stuff, then they didn't really steal it. At that point that's > no different from any other code that gets shared between the projects. > > Tim > > On Thursday January 25, 2001 16:45, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > i am on your side just wnated to know how much of FreeBSD > > > networking code is in 2.4? > > > > I'm not sure, but I think the BSD networking stuff has been in linux > > since 2.2, I think 2.4 got a lot of FreeBSD's VM stuff. I don't know > > how much of either is there, but I remember reading about it, and > > I've worked in both kernels before and have seen some pretty > > non-superficial similarities in both. > > > > Ken > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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