On 11-Jan-09, at 3:28 PM, Tom Bird 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. >
Hmmm... a lot of seasoned sysadmins would disagree. A source based distribution has some significant advantages; I would not be surprised if that concept outlives binary packaging and its attendant dependency hell. --Toby > If you want it in Linux then it has to be a proper GPL compliant > effort. > > I for one would like this to happen. > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > 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
