On Jun 11, 2010, at 10:43, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Jason King <ja...@ansipunx.net> wrote:
Well technically they could start with the GRUB zfs code, which is
GPL
licensed, but I don't think that's the case.
As explained in depth in a previous posting, there is absolutely no
legal
problem with putting the CDDLd original ZFS implementation into the
Linux
kernel.
You are sadly mistaken.
From GNU.org on license compatibilities:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), version 1.0
This is a free software license. It has a copyleft with a scope
that's similar to the one in the Mozilla Public License, which makes
it incompatible with the GNU GPL. This means a module covered by the
GPL and a module covered by the CDDL cannot legally be linked
together. We urge you not to use the CDDL for this reason.
Also unfortunate in the CDDL is its use of the term “intellectual
property”.
Whether a license is classified as "Open Source" or not does not imply
that all open source licenses are compatible with each other.
Alex
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