Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Eric D. Mudama wrote: >> My impression is not that other OS's aren't interested in ZFS, they >> are, it's that the licensing restrictions limit native support to >> Solaris, BSD, and OS-X. > > Perhaps the philosophical issues of the "other OS's" (i.e. Linux) are > more significant than the actual licensing issues. Many/most Linux > users could legally use a native optimized kernel implementation of > Sun ZFS if it was offered to them to do so. GPLv2 only adds > restrictions when copying binaries. A pure source based distribution > like Gentoo has hardly any issues at all.
Nobody in their right mind is using Gentoo. If you want it in Linux then it has to be a proper GPL compliant effort. I for one would like this to happen. Tom _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
