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 -- craig sanders <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
