Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Interesting news related to ZFS: > >> > >> http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page > > > > I wonder if this will be added to the kernel at some point in the > > future? May even be their intention? > > I think the CDDL license is what's keeping ZFS out of the kernel, > although some argue that it should be integrated anyway. OpenZFS > retains the same license.
As long as there are people that claim ZFS was derived from the Linux kernel (i.e. is a derived work from GPL code and thus needs to be put under GPL), there seems to be a problem. I am not sure whether it is possible to educate these people... Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily