2013/2/22 Paolo Aglialoro <paol...@gmail.com>: > The source was available, but it relies on Sun/Oracle patents. >> The CDDL license it was provided under allows use of those patents, >> but only subject to certain conditions, and there are indemnification >> clauses that some projects cannot agree to. > > Does this mean that freebsd, netbsd, maczfs, zfs fuse driver for linux and > the tons of other projects are all at risk? Till today, nobody of them has > been sued. Don't they work on the 28th release of zfs, the last one > considered free before it became closed source? Did closing the source > "edit" the conditions of previous releases?
Perhaps mixing licenses make the user (if the user resells a combined system for instance) liable instead of the project. Would be perfectly legal to provide source for something incompatible licensewise, and then have the users carry the blame instead. Would not be nice, but legal. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
