On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14 January 2016 at 12:20, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Am 14.01.2016 um 19:57 schrieb Gerald B. Cox: >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Bill Nottingham <nott...@splat.cc >>>> <mailto:nott...@splat.cc>> wrote: >>>> >>>> As a rule, I try not to take legal licensing interpretations from a >>>> CTO >>>> who's trying to sell me the thing they're talking about the >>>> licensing of. >>>> >>>> We certainly could send that interpretation of CDDL/GPL and the >>>> kernel to the >>>> legal team... but I'm not sure they'd agree with it. >>>> >>>> >>>> Well, if Lawrence Livermore is doing it, and Canonical apparently plans >>>> to do it, it probably would be a good idea to get a determination from >>>> the legal team >>> >>> >>> who is "Lawrence Livermore"? >>> >> >> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is an organization founded by >> the University of California to do research and development for >> academic and government purposes. The US Department of Energy >> commissioned them to port ZFS to Linux quite a long time ago[0], which >> is the foundation of the current ZFS on Linux codebase. >> >> Please do some research before actually saying things. >> > > Might be good if you did also :). > > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a US Government/Department > of Energy laboratory that UC Berkeley has a hand in managing. It was > not founded by the University of California but came out of the post > Manhatten project to build the hydrogen bomb. The US DOE did not > commission the lab to make the port. The port was done as part of a > project to have a large scale filesystem work for certain computer > clusters. That work got special permission from Sun but those > permissions look to be sealed. > > Just because a port was done and then released does not mean that > Lawrence Livermore is using it in any large way etc. There are > thousands of projects that come out of these labs which maybe 3-20 > students, grad students and phd's worked on but aren't in any use. > Most of them will get that file attached to them which doesn't mean > that LLNL sactioned it, DOE commission it etc etc. It just means that > it was done at the lab as part of some project and the law requires > that the file is attached to it. >
LLNL is still actively involved in the ZFS on Linux project, so they are still doing something with it. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
