Shane Ginnane wrote:
You are quite right John there are problems with the CDDL.
Linus is dead against this - end of discussion I would have thought. And
considering his rants re ext4 recently, who'd be game to attempt to merge
ZFS even if it was possible .... :-)
And so we _really_ need yet another overloaded TLA ?.
Go tell your MVS sysprogs the licensing for ZFS is not acceptable and
watch their jaws drop ...
What is acceptable depends on your goals. IBM found it acceptable to
release OCO code. RH did not find it acceptable. Lots of users were
happy to use it (and you'd have to think that few mainframe users have
an absolute prohibition on OCO, mostly they're using VM after all).
However, sometimes licence conflicts determine what can be done.
GPL-licence code cannot be mixed with code released under other licences
- any that keep source code secret for starters. It is not open to
Oracle to incorporate code from bash into Oracle. It's not permissible
to alter the Linux kernel and release the result without source code,
and companies have been sued sucessfully for this violation. Ask Dlink.
Its also possible for a licence to prohibit release of source code. MS
owns large parts of OS/2.
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Cheers
John
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