Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

Manoj Joseph
2007-04-18T11:32:31Z

Alan Cox wrote:
>> Please do see:
>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/licensing_faq/#patents
>
>
> Which appears to agree with everything I said not what you are claiming.
>
> The patent license is strictly tied to their implementation and its
> derivatives under the CDDL, so specifically acts to exclude Linux.

I thought you said "incompatible with other OS products". I believe
there are other OS products it is quite compatible with. The ports of
ZFS seem to confirm this.

That it is compatible with the Linux kernel was not what I was arguing. :)

-Manoj