On Tue, 6 May 2008, Bill McGonigle wrote: > > That file says 'Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc.', though, so > Sun has the rights to do this. But being GPLv2 code, why do I have > any patent rights to include/redistribute that grub code in my > (theoretical) product (let's assume it does something that is covered
By releasing this bit of code to Grub under the GPL v2 license, Sun has effectively transferred rights to use that scrap of code (in any context) regardless of any Sun patents which may apply. However, it seems that the useful ZFS patents would be for writing/updating the filesystem rather than reading from it. You can be sure that Sun put as little ZFS code in Grub as was possible (and not just for license reasons). Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
