Chris Brennan <xa...@xaerolimit.net> writes: > CDDL isn't a BSD Licence, it's the licence that's used by what was Sun > Microsystems and is now Oracle. > sorry my mistake for thinking zfs was bsd (even after you said it was cddl)! i was confusing it with the fact that you can use zfs via freebsd). thx for the correction.
i looked it up and the key point for me is that "The Free Software Foundation considers it a free software license that is incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribution_License > The BSD Licence and GNU can co-exists quite > well and have for a very long time. > i'd forgotten this largely i think due to some of the hostility demonstrated on the excellent freebsd mailist towards gpl (a few years ago). i guess this is also why you can actually have debian/freebsd then. furthermore, we bridge the incompatibilities perhaps: zfs --> cddl||bsd --> bsd||gpl --> debian(gpl)/freebsd(bsd) i'm not up on the licensing protocols so i'm just guessing here. -- in friendship, prad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87tydrdpqa....@towardsfreedom.com
