Hello Ignatich, Thursday, April 12, 2007, 12:32:13 AM, you wrote:
I> Hello, I> I believe that ZFS and it's concepts is truly revolutionary to the I> point that I no longer see any OS as modern if it does not have I> comparable storage functionality. Therefore I think that file I> system/disk manager with similar qualities should be written for Linux. I> Does Sun have plans to dual license ZFS as GPL so it can be ported to I> native Linux? I> If not, is it legal to write ZFS clone from scratch while I> maintaining binary compatibility with original? I> Jeff mentioned in his blog that Sun filled 56 patents on ZFS related I> technologies. Can anybody from the company provide me with more I> information about this? I> If porting ZFS to Linux kernel is not an option and I were to implement I> different file system with ZFS ideas in mind how can I be safe and not I> break any Sun patents? 1. there's a project to port ZFS to Linux withing FUSE 2. I hope zfs won't be dual licensed - I'm not a lawyer but dual licensing seems to me to provide more problems Now the idea to have ZFS on different platforms is appealing (providing 100% compatibility) but on the other hand real competition is good for market, including open source one. Technologies like ZFS or DTrace make Solaris more different in a good way and just for competitiveness it could be actually good if Linux can't "just copy" it. I'm looking closely to GPLv3 but maybe Linux should change it's license to actually provide more freedom and problem would disappear then. See ZFS being ported to FreeBSD. I really see no point wasting Open Solaris resources to keep ZFS dual licensed. And frankly, it would be mostly Sun's resources. I would rather like to spend those resources on something more important. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
