On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:28:36 +0000 Tom Bird <t...@marmot.org.uk> wrote:
> 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. Based on ...? > If you want it in Linux then it has to be a proper GPL compliant > effort. Why should we want it in linux? It may be that one day linux wants it in linux ;-) > I for one would like this to happen. GPL sucks. At least, that's my opinion. GPL dominion sucks even bigger. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv104 ++ + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
