From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422843AbXDRLLA (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:11:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422844AbXDRLLA (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:11:00 -0400 Received: from mail.clusterfs.com ([206.168.112.78]:60899 "EHLO mail.clusterfs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422843AbXDRLK7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:10:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4625FCBC.9000807@clusterfs.com> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:40:52 +0530 From: Manoj Joseph User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea References: <20070417131045.GB18373@thunk.org> <20070417154814.632da1d9@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070417154814.632da1d9@the-village.bc.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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