On May 6, 2008, at 14:59, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > 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.
Ah, yes, I was wrong on this one - I see Section 11 of GPLv2 covers this adequately. > 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). Well, yeah, the bootloader ought to be as minimal as possible, that just makes sense, any business cases aside. I was pleasantly surprised to boot up the latest OpenSolaris OS Live CD and see GRUB, though. :) -Bill ----- Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
