From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Tarkan Erimer <tarkane@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sun's ZFS and Linux
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:23:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051119172337.GA24765@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9611fa230511181538g3e8ec403uafa9ed32b560fb0c@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:38:16PM +0000, Tarkan Erimer wrote:
>
> On Nov.16, Sun has open sourced the
> (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/announcements/#2005-11-16_welcome_to_the_zfs_community_
> ) ZFS. I know that, It is licensed under CDDL. So, It is not GPL
> compatible. In this situation, there is no way for Linux mainline. But
> I wonder, is there anybody has a plan to port ZFS for Linux as a
> separate patch ?
That wouldn't be a "port", it would have to be a complete
reimplementation from scratch. And, of course, of further concern
would be whether or not there are any patents that Sun may have filed
covering ZFS. If the patents have only been licensed for CDDL
licensed code, then that won't help a GPL'ed covered reimplementation.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-19 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-18 23:38 Sun's ZFS and Linux Tarkan Erimer
2005-11-19 17:23 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2005-11-20 21:12 ` Tarkan Erimer
2005-11-20 23:39 ` Nix
2005-11-21 17:24 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-21 18:48 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-11-21 19:43 ` Tarkan Erimer
2005-11-21 10:11 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-11-21 20:40 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-22 14:56 ` Theodore Ts'o
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