[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>       Yes -- file based and derivative code based (copy covered code to a
> new file and that file is now covered). New code in a new file is not
> automatically covered and the authors choice.  That said,  if they have
> added dedup to zfs they may have taken extraordinary steps to segment their
> code from covered code.  My hunch is they did not.  Everything from
> resilver, zil etc would need to be dedup aware.  Either case,  release the
> required code and there is no harm no foul right?  If it is stubs,  then so
> be it.  I am more interested to see if they implemented it the same way I
> started to or if it is something new.  If it is code complete and all
> covered even better.

If the code in a new file is derived from code in a file covered by the CDDL,
it may be that you need to provide this code under CDDL too.

Jörg

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