Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Kyle McDonald wrote:
> >
> > Along these lines, it's always struck me that most of the restrictions of
> > the
> > GPL fall on the entity who distrbutes the 'work' in question.
>
> A careful reading of GPLv2 shows that restrictions only apply when
> distributing binaries.
These "restrictions" in substance require you to that you need to make
everything (except things that wre usually distributed with the system)
available to allow a recompilation (including linking) for a GPLd work.
You have to do this in case that you ship binaries from the GPLd work.
If you ship a ZFS binary, I see no reason why someone could try to argue
that you ship binaries from GPLd code ;-)
> There are a few vendors who have managed to distribute proprietary
> drivers as binaries for Linux. Nvidia is one such vendor.
But ZFS is no proprietary driver, it is OSS.
Jörg
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