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 something like a mainframe, already does
> link with non-GPL modules.
The GPLv2 does not prevent linking with different projects under different
licenses, it just prevents non-GPLv2d code to appear inside a a GPLd project.
The latter would only be true if someone claims ZFS is a part ot the Linux
Project (GPL speek: "work").
Jörg
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