[NotEvil]

I don't think it's a licencing issue. It's implementation as both kernels uses different syscalls and have different architecture.

[trasz]

Syscalls are mostly the same, but indeed, the interface between the kernel and the file systems is very different. However, code which implements that interface on the file system is a relatively small part of the whole thing; most of the code should be reusable.

Historical note: FreeBSD used to support XFS; I believe it was ported from Linux.

[rjsw]

It takes a lot of work to get the Linux GPU drivers to build for other operating systems.

[trasz]

True. Although it’s way easier than it used to be, thanks to linuxkpi layer - the piece of FreeBSD kernel which implements various Linux kernel APIs.