From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422863AbXDRLcb (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:32:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422867AbXDRLcb (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:32:31 -0400 Received: from mail.clusterfs.com ([206.168.112.78]:45068 "EHLO mail.clusterfs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422863AbXDRLc1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:32:27 -0400 Message-ID: <462601C4.3060902@clusterfs.com> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:02:20 +0530 From: Manoj Joseph User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea References: <20070417131045.GB18373@thunk.org> <20070417154814.632da1d9@the-village.bc.nu> <4625FCBC.9000807@clusterfs.com> <20070418122344.629a754d@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070418122344.629a754d@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: >> 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