Rob Gittins wrote:
> I believe so, but I am not a lawyer.
>
That is my understanding as well. The FUSE project is being ported with
the BSD license, which is compatible with CDDL and therefore allows FUSE
to be included in the OpenSolaris kernel. Then DavFS will be a user land
"application" running with in FUSE, and since it will not be adding any
interfaces to the OpenSolaris kernel, it can remain licensed with GPLv2.
All that being said, this will need some pretty good legal reviews
before coming into OpenSolaris as a binary...
Thanks again for the proposal and I look forward to working with you to
make this a reality.
-jc
> Tom Haynes wrote:
>
>> Rob Gittins wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> This project is to port the Linux version of davfs2 to Solaris
>>> 10, Open Solaris and Solaris Nevada.
>>>
>>> For Solaris, davfs2 runs as a daemon in userspace. It uses
>>> the kernel file system fuse attachment. Fuse will have to be
>>> installed prior to use of this file systems.
>>>
>> So the fact that fuse is in use allows davfs2 to still keep be under
>> GPL and not CDDL?
>>
>> I.e., if this went straight into the kernel, we couldn't use a port,
>> right?
>>
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