From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932409AbXDQPGg (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:06:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932386AbXDQPGg (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:06:36 -0400 Received: from relay2.ptmail.sapo.pt ([212.55.154.22]:56133 "HELO sapo.pt" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932409AbXDQPGe (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:06:34 -0400 X-AntiVirus: PTMail-AV 0.3-0.90.1 Message-ID: <4624E275.7000705@wizy.org> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:06:29 +0100 From: Ricardo Correia User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070403) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tomasz_K=3Foczko?= , Theodore Tso , "David R. Litwin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea References: <20070417131045.GB18373@thunk.org> <20070417154814.632da1d9@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070417154814.632da1d9@the-village.bc.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > The real test of whether Sun were serious about ZFS being anywhere but > Solaris is what they do to license it - they've patented everything they > can, and made the code available only under licenses incompatible with > other OS products. Their intent is quite clear, and quite sad. That is not quite true. They made ZFS available under the CDDL, which is an OSI-approved open-source license that is *less* restrictive than the GPL. The CDDL doesn't prevent anyone from using the ZFS code in combination with code under other licenses. The proof of that is that ZFS has already been ported to FreeBSD and it's being ported to the Mac OS X kernel. The main problem with ZFS on Linux is that most people consider that the GPL doesn't allow non-GPL kernel modules.