Is kdbus really being put in the FreeBSD kernel?

I don't know who this guy is but throughout that thread he's talking dbus, not kdbus, but maybe that's the same to him. He won't mention which FreeBSD developer emailed him with the question so 1) we can't tell if it really was one and 2) we don't know if he was serious and c) we don't know if he can really do that.

In any case, does that even make any sense to do so?
 
References? It sounds very unlikely since the code is licensed with an incompatible license, LGPLv2+ (from https://github.com/gregkh/kdbus). FreeBSD developers have stated very explicitly that code licensed with GPL or the like licenses will not be added to the base system under any conditions.
 
wblock@ said:
The interwebs has this neat feature of being able to link to what is being discussed, like this: https://plus.google.com/111049168280159033135/posts
Of course, this makes it much less interesting. No details, not even which BSD.
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There is another BSD??? My bad, I might have jumped the gun: https://plus.google.com/111049168280159 ... KJxFY8VvT1

Two different conversations I had a week ago:
Linux kernel developer talking to me at ELC:
him: "If you put dbus into the kernel, I am going to switch to one of the BSDs"
me: "Sorry to hear that, good luck."

Email sent to me the next day from a BSD kernel developer:
him: "As you want to put dbus into the Linux kernel, we probably want to as well, do you have any objection to us doing this?"
me: "Not at all, if there's anything I can do to help out, just let me know."

I'm tempted to say something to that first developer now, but I think I'll just sit back and watch this all play out...
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I forget that there are other BSD's than FreeBSD.
 
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