Dickon Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
We cannot change other people. We can try to read with them and may have luck.
I am happy with the fact that during the past 6 months the unfriendly
expressions against OpenSolaris have become very rare compared to 2-3 years
ago. Maybe there is hope in a not too far future. FreeBSD and Mac OS X
create facts now.
Jörg
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