Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

Manoj Joseph
2007-04-18T11:11:00Z

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.

Please do see:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/licensing_faq/#patents

ZFS has been ported to some of those 'other OS products'. :)

My two cents...

-Manoj