"David Dyer-Bennet" <d...@dd-b.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, August 15, 2010 20:44, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>
> > Irrespective of the above, there is nothing requiring Oracle to release
> > any future btrfs or ZFS improvements (or even bugfixes). They can't
> > retrospectively change the license on already released code but they
> > can put a different (non-OSS) license on any new code.
>
> That's true.
>
> However, if Oracle makes a binary release of BTRFS-derived code, they must
> release the source as well; BTRFS is under the GPL.
This claim would only be true in case that Oracle does not own the copyright
on its' code...
Jörg
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