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... which in the context of a BSD OS ever supporting a bcachefs drive, means bcachefs is not compatible with BSD OSes given it SPDX identifies as GPL-2.0: https

... which in the context of a BSD OS ever supporting a bcachefs drive, means bcachefs is not compatible with BSD OSes given it SPDX identifies as GPL-2.0: https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs.git/tree/fs/bcachefs/fs.c#n1 https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs.git/tree/fs/bcachefs/... Yes, you can bundle GPL software with BSD software, much the same as I can bundle EULA'd software with BSD software: under the stricter terms. Obviously that's not the intent of the question, but sure, it's theoretically possible in some future fictional world where the BSDs are GPL'd.

arp242 3y ago
You don't need to re-license the BSD code to GPL as that code is not a derived from the GPL'd bcache. Distributing binaries is the only tricky bit: a kernel with GPL code would need to be distributed as GPL. This can be solved with loadable kernel modules. There isn't much stopping anyone from using the code from a license perspective. The problem is this sort of code is strongly tied to the operating system, and porting it would require significant effort, if even feasible at all.