From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:44:53 -0400 Message-ID: <20080722074453.GA25205@infradead.org> References: <487FA143.9010109@garzik.org> <20080720105724.GA8921@infradead.org> <20080721072801.GA6115@infradead.org> <1216651854.2657.35.camel@spike.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Fred ." , Kevin Winchester , Christoph Hellwig , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Bernd Petrovitsch Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:42019 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751844AbYGVHpY (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:45:24 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1216651854.2657.35.camel@spike.firmix.at> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 04:50:54PM +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > 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), Either you or I have lost track here. Fred without a lastname asked for ZFS support based on the grub code, and never replied again in this thread. Kevin volunteered to work on it.