On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 21:34:35 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: : Dickon Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > ZFS would be lovely. Pity about the licence issues. : There is no license issue: the CDDL allows a combination : with any other license and the GPL does not forbid a GPL : project to use code under other licenses in case that the : non-GPL code does not become a derived work of the the GPL : code. I happen to agree with you, but unfortunately those in charge of the kernel don't. Licence politics are annoying, but still fall under 'licence issues' in my book. : In case of a filesystem, I do not see why the filesystem could : be a derived work from e.g. Linux. Indeed not, however AIUI the FSF do. : If people did like, they could use ZFS in Linux and nobody would : complian...... I can't see why it isn't possible to maintain an out-of-tree implementation -- after all, the issues with mixing GPL and non-GPL code only come about on redistribution -- but I don't see anyone doing this. I'd give it a bash myself, but I have time issues at the moment, and as my knowledge of kernel internals (of any Unixoid) is rather lacking at the moment, would involve quite a learning curve. Pity. : The problem is in the first priority, politics then technical problems. Agreed. -- Dickon Hood Due to digital rights management, my .sig is temporarily unavailable. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience in the meantime. No virus was found in this outgoing message as I didn't bother looking. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
