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Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs
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Not under a license which prohibits also licensing under the GPL. i.e. it has no conditions beyond what the GPL specifies.
Not true
The only condition is that CCDL and GPL don't apply to the same file. Wifi works just fine and the source code isn't GPL yet wifi drivers are in the kernel..
https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/2094/are-cddl-and-gpl-really-incompatible
...because they are incompatible licenses.
There's no requirement for them to apply to the same file? There's already blobs in the kernel the gpl doesn't apply to the source of
The question was "How do you define GPL compatible?". The answer to that question has nothing to do with code being split between files. Two licenses are incompatible if they can't both apply at the same time to the same thing.
The two works can live harmoniously together in the same repo, therefore, not incompatible by one definition and the one that matters.
There's already big organisations doing it and they haven't had any issues