From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031152AbXDQQ3b (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:29:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031165AbXDQQ3b (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:29:31 -0400 Received: from keil-draco.com ([216.193.185.50]:50404 "EHLO mail" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031152AbXDQQ3a convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:29:30 -0400 From: Daniel Hazelton To: Tomasz =?utf-8?q?K=C5=82oczko?= Subject: Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:29:21 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Matthew Garrett , Theodore Tso , "David R. Litwin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070417135958.GB28201@srcf.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704171229.21433.dhazelton@enter.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 17 April 2007 11:46:38 Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:47:32PM +0200, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > >> Realy can't or don't want (?) > >> So who is responsible for potential changing Linux code licensing for > >> allow if not incorporate CDDL code correct interraction without breaking > >> some law ? > > > > Everyone who holds any copyright over any of the code in Linux, which is > > several thousand people. You'd probably need permission from all of > > them. Good luck! > > Why on discussion about switching to GPL v3 Linux code this argument was > allways taken as "piece of cake". Why in case switching to another license > which will allow use CDDL code just it is most importand contr argument ? > > kloczek Because *EVERY* version of the GPL contains the "or any later version of this license" clause (except, now, the version being used with the Linux kernel) DRH