Hi all, as some of you maybe know there's new player on OS market called http://smartos.org . What's starting to be interesting is their "port" of KVM to Solaris code base which is used as a kernel module.
Bryan Cantrill didn't talk much about licenses in his paper http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/7/71/2011-forum-porting-to-smartos.pdf No matter how much interesting it sounds, the question on licensing was addressed vaguely (if at all) during the talk. In a private chat later, Bryan mentioned there's no violation at all, but here you can find a little more discussion https://lwn.net/Articles/455008/ In NetBSD is eg. dtrace/zfs made as module. The question now is if those ports are CDDL, GPL or BSD licensed. Probably there was not similar case at court yet. As I know CDDL parts are (for example as modules) in FreeBSD and NetBSD and there were couple of threads on misc@ about porting zfs/dtrace to OpenBSD as well. OpenBSD is really clear about its policy, but do you think that it's really possible to port stuff this way and made it available as module without need for change of license or worrying about shark suits? Thx PS: No flame at all. I just think that this situation can be interesting regarding future because of mixing licenses in some of systems which are not so strict about license policy
