On May 19, 2008, at 16:06, 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.
What does the CDDL say about patents? The CDDL provides an explicit patent license for code released under the license. This means that you can use, modify, and redistribute code released under CDDL without worrying about any patents that the contributors of the code (including Sun) might have on the contributed technology. The license also includes a provision to discourage patent litigation against developers by revoking the rights to the code for anyone initiating a patent claim against a developer regarding code they have contributed. http://opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/licensing_faq/#patents _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
