From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
To: "Fred ." <eldmannen@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources)
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:50:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216651854.2657.35.camel@spike.firmix.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1af83620807210740vfef575bp73832fd95d803850@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 11:40 -0300, Kevin Winchester wrote:
[....]
> > But it may be covered by patents by Sun. So maybe not allowed make an
> > implementation. :(
> > Maybe you should consult SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center) first or something.
Since basically *you* wanted that feature in the first place (and for
whatever reason do not even start to work on it), I would have assumed
that *you* already checked out all implications - especially the legal
ones.
So which patents may be relevant IYHO?
Bernd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-21 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <f188924b0807171213q43f10b09j47b34674fc8aaa38@mail.gmail.com>
2008-07-17 19:45 ` Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources) Jeff Garzik
2008-07-17 20:18 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-20 10:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-20 12:35 ` Kevin Winchester
2008-07-20 16:56 ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-07-21 7:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-21 11:39 ` Kevin Winchester
[not found] ` <f188924b0807210723v3a35de9fgc1565811a0597833@mail.gmail.com>
2008-07-21 14:40 ` Kevin Winchester
2008-07-21 14:50 ` Bernd Petrovitsch [this message]
2008-07-22 7:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-22 8:15 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-21 15:17 ` jim owens
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