On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 08:15 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Possibly so, but ZFS is all new code. Are you saying that Sun couldn't > >license that as BSD had they wanted? > > They could, but Sun's patents would get in the way of actually using it. > > If you get Sun's code under the CDDL it comes with a patent license.
So if one wanted to play devils advocate; if Linux wants ZFS, they could move to CDDL and all would be well :-) I think its good what has happened; lord knows the one way sucking from the Linux community is bad enough as it is - and given the GPL, they can suck in any code they want and none of the enhancements can be merged back to the original source. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
