S h i v wrote: > *I* cannot, because I am not the owner of the copyright. Point was > about mixing CDDL & GPL and why it *is a problem* > Sane thing is to follow legal advice by the qualified. It seems to > have its good share of problems and need not be done. There is no > compelling need either.
Extract of an email from Linus on 3 Dec 2003 to linux-kernel L> Historically, there's been things like the original Andrew filesystem L> module: a standard filesystem that really wasn't written for Linux in the L> first place, and just implements a UNIX filesystem. Is that derived just L> because it got ported to Linux that had a reasonably similar VFS interface L> to what other UNIXes did? Personally, I didn't feel that I could make that L> judgment call. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but it clearly is a gray L> area. > L> Personally, I think that case wasn't a derived work, and I was willing to L> tell the AFS guys so. OpenAFS runs on Linux and it is NOT GPL it is covered under the IBM Public License. OpenAFS isn't part of the Linux kernel source it just hooks into the VFS layer. I personally believe that a ZFS port could very likley be done under the same terms, but thats my interpretation of what Linus has said. -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
