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From: "Sašo Kiselkov" <skiselkov.ml@gmail.com>
To: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
Cc: dajhorn@vanadac.com,
	The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>,
	christopher.siden@delphix.com,
	Massimo Maggi <me@massimo-maggi.eu>,
	ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] ZFS Feature flags and LZ4 compression support
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:06:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <516563C2.1010505@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51655F89.6050807@gmail.com>

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On 04/10/2013 02:48 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On 10.04.2013 14:35, Massimo Maggi wrote:
> 
>> This fact made me assume that there are no licensing problems,
>> however to ease the merging procedure, a public statement (on the
>> grub-devel mailing list, as requested from the mantainer) from
>> the original authors of the code about the legality of this
>> porting would be greatly appreciated. Regards,
> 
> Specifically my main concern is that CDDL code might have been
> copied when creating those files.

Hi Vladimir,

I'm the one who integrated LZ4 support into Illumos. The bits of glue
code that I wrote to get LZ4 integrated are GPL'd in GRUB and CDDL'd
in the Illumos kernel - I'm the original author, so I can release the
code under any number of licenses I choose to.

As to the LZ4 decompressor, that is 2-clause BSD (aka FreeBSD) written
by Yann Collet: http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/
The FreeBSD license is compatible with both GPL and CDDL, so there is
no licensing issue there either:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#FreeBSD

Cheers,
- --
Saso
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      reply	other threads:[~2013-04-10 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-04 11:08 [PATCH 0/5] ZFS Feature flags and LZ4 compression support Massimo Maggi
2013-04-10 12:35 ` Massimo Maggi
2013-04-10 12:48   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-04-10 13:06     ` Sašo Kiselkov [this message]

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