*If* someone were to do the port *and* there is demand for it, the lawyers would settle out the license issues. Remember which is the dog and which is the tail.
I like the 'take a look at what Vertias' did suggestion. has anyone done so? Toby Thain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/17/2007 10:56 PM To Wee Yeh Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS for Linux (NO LISCENCE talk, please) On 17-Apr-07, at 10:54 PM, Wee Yeh Tan wrote: > On 4/17/07, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 17/04/07, Wee Yeh Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On 4/17/07, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > So, it comes to this: Why, precisely, can ZFS not be >> > > released under a License which _is_ GPL >> > > compatible? >> > >> > So why do you think should it be released under a GPL compatible >> license? >> >> So that it can be used directly with the Linux kernel. > > That matters to the developers of ZFS/OpenSolaris how? > > Also, note that we are not sure if GPL really matters in the case of > porting a filesystem to Linux. As others have brought up, there are > many commercial file systems/volume managers available in Linux as > well. > >> On the flip side, why shouldn't it be? > > Therein lies the difference in perspective. Linux folks thinks it's > OpenSolaris's fault that ZFS cannot be integrated into Linux. > OpenSolaris folks do not think so. The OpenSolaris folks here seem to think it's Linux' fault. Impasse. But I'm sworn not to discuss this here :) --T > If I'm your neighbour and I'm > looking at expanding my house in your direction, should you move out > of the way? > > > -- > Just me, > Wire ... > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
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