Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for Linux 2.6

2006-11-07 Thread Joerg Schilling
Matt Ingenthron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not an expert (nor am I offering legal advice), but my understanding > of GPLv2 is the copyright holder can explicitly state exceptions on > linking, so they could allow linking with ZFS even though it's under the > CDDL. Linux, when run on say

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for Linux 2.6

2006-11-07 Thread Joerg Schilling
Erik Trimble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There have been extensive discussions on loadable modules and licensing > w/r/t the GPLv2 in the linux kernel. nVidia, amongst others, pushed hard > to allow for non-GPL-compatible licensed code to be allowed as a Linux > kernel module. However, the ke

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for Linux 2.6

2006-11-07 Thread Erik Trimble
There have been extensive discussions on loadable modules and licensing w/r/t the GPLv2 in the linux kernel. nVidia, amongst others, pushed hard to allow for non-GPL-compatible licensed code to be allowed as a Linux kernel module. However, the kernel developers' consensus seems to have come do

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for Linux 2.6

2006-11-06 Thread Matt Ingenthron
James Dickens wrote: On 11/6/06, Yuen L. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm curious whether there is a version of Linux 2.6 ZFS available? Many thanks. sorry there is no ZFS in Linux, and given current stands of Linus Torvalds and the current Kernel team there never will be, because

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for Linux 2.6

2006-11-06 Thread James Dickens
On 11/6/06, Yuen L. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm curious whether there is a version of Linux 2.6 ZFS available?Many thanks.sorry there is no ZFS in Linux, and given current stands of Linus Torvalds and the current Kernel team there never will be, because Linux is GPLv2 and it is incompatible

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS for Linux 2.6

2006-11-06 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Yuen, Not to my knowledge. I believe this project is working on it though: http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/ Best Regards, Jason On 11/6/06, Yuen L. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm curious whether there is a version of Linux 2.6 ZFS available? Many thanks. This message posted from opens

[zfs-discuss] ZFS for Linux 2.6

2006-11-06 Thread Yuen L. Lee
I'm curious whether there is a version of Linux 2.6 ZFS available? Many thanks. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss