On Mon, 19 May 2008, Bill McGonigle wrote: > As it is, patents and licenses prevent Linux from picking up ZFS, but > if they were to re-license ZFS under GPL3 or grant a linux project a > patent license, it could be possible.
I don't believe that either of these is sufficient. The Linux kernel is GPLv2 but with the allowance to use "any later version" removed so it does not appear to be compatible with GPLv3. GPLv2 is compatible with GPLv3 by being upgraded to GPLv3. GPL does not care if patent rights are granted for some specific usage situation since it must apply for all possible usage situations. While Linus may be the de-facto Linux spokesperson, he does not hold the many thousands of copyrights to Linux so he does not "own" the work. It is a hopeless case. The FSF was a bit wiser since they made sure that everyone who contributed to their projects signed over the copyrights to them (a tedious process to be sure). 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
