James Dickens wrote:
Just in case it isn't mentioned by someone else, many of the OpenSolaris folks would probably encourage you, Yuen, to bring this up with the Linux kernel folks. Obviously, things like filesystems are very useful to have implementations of on many platforms (i.e. people should own their data, their operating systems shouldn't). 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 something like a mainframe, already does link with non-GPL modules. So my understanding is it's not a legal issue or technical issue (other than that pesky porting), but more of a whether-or-not-people-want-it. So if you want it, you should ping the appropriate Linux folks.
-- Matt Ingenthron - Web Infrastructure Solutions Architect Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Client Solutions, Systems Practice http://blogs.sun.com/mingenthron/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 310-242-6439 |
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