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From: Mike Snitzer
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Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 9:02 am
On 4/17/07, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
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> > So who is responsible for potential changing Linux code licensing for > > allow if not incorporate CDDL code correct interraction without breaking > > some law ? > > Every single contributor, individually. Which won't happen. > > The real test of whether Sun were serious about ZFS being anywhere but > Solaris is what they do to license it - they've patented everything they > can, and made the code available only under licenses incompatible with > other OS products. Their intent is quite clear, and quite sad. > > Compare it to what the old Sun company did with NFS, which is now a > standard used everywhere. > > If Sun want ZFS to get used all over the place in free software then I'd > have expected at the very least to see them throw out a copy of the code, > docs and patent grant in a form that could be used, even if it came with > no other assistance of any kind. Now would be a great time to do that, > but I can't see it happening, instead they'll miss the boat just as > microsoft did with Office XML (three years ago they'd have sailed it > through ISO to the sound of fanfairs)
Maybe Ian Murdock could weigh in on this given his new position at Sun. Ian? BTW, congrats on the new gig... -
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