On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:26:33AM -0500, bofh wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Dave Wilson > <richard.wil...@senokian.com> wrote: > > I would suggest, if you want XFS in OpenBSD[1], set about persuading Sun > > to re-release the ZFS code as BSD-licensed. Indeed, I think given it > > would have to be kernel code, I really do mean BSD-licensed rather than > > BSD-license-compatible. > > I have to ask - if you're not copying the code, but only copying the > concept/technical requirements over (ie, a rewrite), that new code > would be bsd licensed, right? >
Yea but sun have patents over ZFS `concepts` [see wikipedia, google]. And the CDDL grants you a license. so you can't use another.
