"Eric D. Mudama" <edmud...@bounceswoosh.org> 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.
The BDF folks had some cons against the CDDL but after I had a lobger
discussion with them, they understood that the CDDL does not hurt them as long
as the CDDL is not used for essential siftware core software that cannot be
replaced.
> If you wanted native support in Windows or Linux, it would require a
> significant effort from Sun.
The problem is not the CDDL but the way ZFS and the CDDL is discussed in
the Linux camp.
Even a GPLd ZFS would not change things for Linux....
A GPLd ZFS would however disallow to use it on *BSD and Mac OS X.
Jörg
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