On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 09:38:09AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Just a reminder: ZFS code is licensed under CDDL, which is a
> weak-copyleft variant of MPL. It is not under BSD or any other
> permissive licence.
which is a shame, because if it was there would be no licensing
problem preventing it from being merged with the linux kernel.
BSD is compatible with GPL, CDDL isn't.
Sun did that deliberately so that GPL projects like linux couldn't use
their code, negating most of the good will (and code contributions) they
could have achieved from switching to an open source license.
> (Some permissive-licensing ideologues don't like ZFS in FreeBSD
> for the same reason they don't like any other copylefted code in that
> project.)
yeah, well, BSD license zealots are weird. they're perfectly OK with
proprietary software taking their code but spit the dummy when a GPL
project does the same ("it's not fair", they say). and even with LGPL
and other weak copyleft licenses they think it's a matter of principle
to refuse to use it.
craig
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