> There would also be no protection against Sun's patents on ZFS if > we were to expand that into a full implementation.
To the contrary: While the CDDL protects any developers (and users) from patent claims by both SUN and all software/license users, GPL-2 does not. Any user of the linux kernel (e.g. SCO) can file patent claims against any developer who contributed to the kernel. If the linux kernel used CDDL instead of GPL-2, those patent claims would violate (and terminate) the license. SUN itself grants all relevant patent rights within the CDDL (read http://www.sun.com/cddl/cddl.html). Not CDDL is the problem but GPL-2's lack of a solution for SCO-like attacks (and it's non-compatibility statements against licenses that have such a solution). For Ubuntu, a simple workaround would be a patch to the kernel. The patch itself (containing CDDLed code) does not violate the GPL-2. Users could apply the patch (in most cases users are allowed to do so), Ubuntu itself would not need to supply already-patched kernels. -- 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
