On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 16:06 +0100, Ricardo Correia wrote: > 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. > > That is not quite true. They made ZFS available under the CDDL, which is > an OSI-approved open-source license that is *less* restrictive than the > GPL. The CDDL doesn't prevent anyone from using the ZFS code in > combination with code under other licenses.
You are wrong. Please read e.g. <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses> (maybe there are better analysis somewhere, but I don't know where). Xav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
