"C. Bergström" <codest...@osunix.org> wrote: > > I absolutely guarantee Oracle can and likely already has dual-licensed > > BTRFS. > No.. talk to Chris Mason.. it depends on the linux kernel too much > already to be available under anything, but GPLv2
If he really believes this, then he seems to be missinformed about legal background. The question is: who wrote the btrfs code and who owns it. If Oracle pays him for writing the code, then Oracle owns the code and can relicense it under any license they like. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss