Casper Bang wrote:
Yeah ZFS is CDDL. I suppose Apple could also have dropped ZFS seeing
as Oracle would (rightfully IMO) deprecate it in favor of BTRFS -
which is GPL and of course much more friendly than CDDL
I don't know what Oracle will do, but this rationale is completely
illogical. BTRFS is still unstable and unfit for production (there's a
flashing warning at the top of the BTRFS official wiki), while ZFS has
been for years. When Oracle completes the Sun buy, they can relicense
ZFS as they wish, so for the short and middle term ZFS stays here for
sure. For the future, I don't see the point in spending money for
cloning an asset that has been bought, so personally I'd not bet on
BTRFS future (with the exception of the open source community - but if
ZFS got GPLed, I see many Linux users adopting it).
Back to the Apple point, ZFS has been CDDL since from the beginning -
nothing changed recently (there has been a legal action against Sun from
another corporate for an alleged patent breach, but as for as I know Sun
got out of it). Half-said things over mailing lists and blogs referred
to Apple not willing to pay the money for a double licensing for
liability issues (a thing that would be exactly the same with GPL, so
CDDL it's not an issue with Apple). I think that everybody understands
that a such a deal doesn't fail all of a sudden from a day to another,
yet Apple's customers only saw the surprise when Snow Leopard was
released (of course ADC signers got it with a few weeks of advance, when
they got the first beta with missing ZFS). As far as we know, Apple is
developing Yet Another Advanced File System, but who know when it will
see the light. Of course, no word about it.
PS As far as I understand, Apple can't know anything about what Oracle
will do with ZFS as it would be illegal for a third party to know about
plans related to a buy in progress - I mean, even Oracle and Sun
personnel can't talk about it.
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