Re: [zfs-discuss] Details on raidz boot + zfs patents?
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:53 AM, C. Bergström cbergst...@netsyncro.com wrote: The other question that I am less worried about is would this violate any patents.. I mean.. Sun added the initial zfs support to grub and this is essentially extending that, but I'm not aware of any patent provisions on that code or some royalty free statement about ZFS related patents from Sun.. (Frankly.. I look at Sun as /similar/ to Cononical in that I assume they only sue to protect themselves and not go after any good intention foss project..) See http://opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/licensing_faq/#patents. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Details on raidz boot + zfs patents?
Mike Gerdts wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:53 AM, C. Bergström cbergst...@netsyncro.com wrote: The other question that I am less worried about is would this violate any patents.. I mean.. Sun added the initial zfs support to grub and this is essentially extending that, but I'm not aware of any patent provisions on that code or some royalty free statement about ZFS related patents from Sun.. (Frankly.. I look at Sun as /similar/ to Cononical in that I assume they only sue to protect themselves and not go after any good intention foss project..) See http://opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/licensing_faq/#patents. Sun has contributed zfs code to their grub fork, but it's not under the CDDL. So this doesn't apply. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Details on raidz boot + zfs patents?
C. Bergström cbergst...@netsyncro.com wrote: See http://opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/licensing_faq/#patents. Sun has contributed zfs code to their grub fork, but it's not under the CDDL. So this doesn't apply. Under GPLv2 you may only cntribute code where your patents apply if you grant royal free usage. BTW: this is why the FreeDB (CDDB) code is still free. 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
