yeah, this is ZFS turf. what Linux folks really care may not be what z-open folks really care...
open folks are not just all in one camp. I like you open folks, much much more than the L-open folks. best, z ----- Original Message ----- From: "dick hoogendijk" <d...@nagual.nl> To: <zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 3:47 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:28:36 +0000 > Tom Bird <t...@marmot.org.uk> wrote: > >> Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Eric D. Mudama wrote: >> >> My impression is not that other OS's aren't interested in ZFS, they >> >> are, it's that the licensing restrictions limit native support to >> >> Solaris, BSD, and OS-X. >> > >> > Perhaps the philosophical issues of the "other OS's" (i.e. Linux) >> > are more significant than the actual licensing issues. Many/most >> > Linux users could legally use a native optimized kernel >> > implementation of Sun ZFS if it was offered to them to do so. >> > GPLv2 only adds restrictions when copying binaries. A pure source >> > based distribution like Gentoo has hardly any issues at all. >> >> Nobody in their right mind is using Gentoo. > > Based on ...? > >> If you want it in Linux then it has to be a proper GPL compliant >> effort. > > Why should we want it in linux? It may be that one day linux wants it > in linux ;-) > >> I for one would like this to happen. > > GPL sucks. At least, that's my opinion. GPL dominion sucks even bigger. > > -- > Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D > + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv104 ++ > + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol) > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
