On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:26:33AM -0500, bofh wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Dave Wilson

>  wrote:

> > I would suggest, if you want XFS in OpenBSD[1], set about persuading Sun

> > to re-release the ZFS code as BSD-licensed. Indeed, I think given it

> > would have to be kernel code, I really do mean BSD-licensed rather than

> > BSD-license-compatible.

>

> I have to ask - if you're not copying the code, but only copying the

> concept/technical requirements over (ie, a rewrite), that new code

> would be bsd licensed, right?

> 

Yea but sun have patents over ZFS `concepts` [see wikipedia, google].

And the CDDL grants you a license. so you can't use another.