On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Eric D. Mudama wrote:
GPL v2 may not be the most recent version, but a lot of people prefer GPLv2 to GPLv3, in the same way that some people might prefer Solaris 8 to Solaris 10, or Linux 2.4 kernels to the 2.6 series.
To be more clear, standard GPL provides the option for the user to use any later version. The Linux kernel uses a modified verison of GPLv2 which removes that option since they could not control the future of GPL. GPLv2 and GPLv3 are only similar in general intent. One prints in a page or two while the other requires a book.
Due to this, ZFS would need to be licensed using GPLv2 in order to be included in the the Linux kernel.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
