Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On May 18, 2008, at 14:01, Mario Goebbels wrote:
>
> > I mean, if the Linux folks to want it, fine. But if Sun's actually
> > helping with such a possible effort, then it's just shooting itself in
> > the foot here, in my opinion.
>
>
> As it is, patents and licenses prevent Linux from picking up ZFS, but
> if they were to re-license ZFS under GPL3 or grant a linux project a
> patent license, it could be possible.
This is a claim from the Linux camp.
If it was correct, then neither FreeBSD nor Mac OS X could use ZFS.
The GPL does not prevent non-GPL code to appear in a GPLd project. The GPL only
prevents GPLd code to appear inside a non-GPL project.
Jörg
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