Darren J Moffat <darr...@opensolaris.org> wrote: > > One of the biggest questions around this effort would be ?licensing?. > > As far as our understanding goes; CDDL doesn?t restrict us from > > modifying ZFS code and releasing it. However GPL and CDDL code cannot > > be mixed, which implies that ZFS cannot be compiled into Linux Kernel > > which is GPL. But we believe the way to get around this issue is to > > build ZFS as a module with a CDDL license, it can still be loaded in > > the Linux kernel. Though it would be restricted to use the non-GPL > > symbols, but as long as that rule is adhered to there is no problem of > > legal issues. > > That is my personal understanding as well, however this is not legal > advice and I am not qualified to (or even wish to) give it in any case.
>From what I have been told by various lawyers, as long as ZFS is a separate work (which means that you cannot tell other people that you mixed the "work" Linux-kernel with ZFS) there is no legal problem. If you like to ask a lawyer, be careful to ask an independent lawyer and not the SFLC (which is unfortunately giving biased advise). I good choice for an independent lawyer seems to be Lawrence Rosen: Check e.g. http://www.rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch06.pdf and http://www.rosenlaw.com/ Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
