On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 03:17:38PM +1000, Petros wrote:
> From: "Craig Sanders" <[email protected]>
> > On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 12:25:37PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> > Oracle as the copyright holder on the Sun-developed ZFS could solve
> > the license problem by re-licensing it as GPL or BSD (preferably
> > BSD so that FreeBSD and Illumos etc could use it too) but that's
> > extremely unlikely to happen.
>
> It is part of the "standard FreeBSD kernel". I am not an expert in
> licenses but it looks as the current ZFS license (CDDL, AFAIK) is not
> an issue in the BSD world.

yeah, i know. which is why i think re-licensing it as GPL would be a bad
idea. re-licensing it as BSD would work for everyone.

i don't think that either is at all likely to happen. i'd be extremly
surprised if it did.

> BTW: There is OpenZFS now:(http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page)

yep.

> Nobody knows what Oracle is doing with ZFS (especially if it comes to  
> open source).

except letting it slip through their fingers.  that's clear to anyone
who looks at what's happening.

craig

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