One more time trying to clear things up a bit: - It's not CDDL that leaves developers and users exposed to possible patent violation claims, it's GPL that does this. CDDL protects developers and users against such claims. - GPL calls licences with such a protection against patent violation claims "invalid". GPL wants users and developers to stay exposed to claims like those of SCO. THAT's the problem with mainline kernel. - Nothing legally stops anybody from creating and supplying patches/modules to the kernel as long as they are not merged *into* the kernel by the supplier before supplying to the users. You know what a patch is? (or a module?) - You just won't get it upstream into the (mainline) kernel (and technically aren't allowed to directly integrate it with that before supplying to the end user). That's because GPL sucks. But that's GPL's problem. It's easy to go around that. It's done all day in Ubuntu and other distros.
So stop moaning, and especially stop thinking Sun/CDDL would expose anybody to possible patent violation claims. It's GPL that does this. So just go around GPL here. -- Add native ZFS to Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202952 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
