On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 14:04 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Ross Walker wrote:
> >
> > And there lies the problem, you need the agreement of all copyright
> > holders in a GPL project to change it's licensing terms and some
> > just will not budge.
>
> Joerg is correct that CDDL code can legally live right alongside the
> GPLv2 kernel code and run in the same program. It is a "mind set"
> issue with the Linux developers rather than a legal one.
My understanding is that no, this is not possible. IANAL, but I think
the provisions of CDDL with respect to granting patent license and
choice of law venue are incompatible with GPL's stipulations.
Conventional wisdom and detailed analysis done by lawyers is that you
can't mix and match these licenses this way.
>
> If ZFS was not tied to a big greedy controlling company then the Linux
> kernel developers would be more likely to change their mind.
No, its a license problem too. There may be NIH factors and reasonable
engineering disagreements too.
- Garrett
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