Joerg Schilling writes:
There is a lot of missunderstandings with the GPL.
Porting ZFS to Linux wouldnotmake ZFS a "derived work" from Linux.
I do not see why anyone could claim that there is a need to publish ZFS under
GPL in case you use it on Linux. The CDDL however allows you to use it together
with _any_ other license. So where is the problem?
You may have a perfectly valid point. ATI and nVidia both provide
non-GPL drivers for Linux. But I don't think it's that easy. You can't
port a file system to Linux without using EXPORT_GPL APIs. That means
Linux developers view such code as "derived work". I prefer to be safe
than sorry.
Sincerely yours, Max V. Yudin
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