On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 08:57:19AM -0700, Joerg Schilling wrote: > "C. Bergström" <codest...@osunix.org> wrote: > > > > I absolutely guarantee Oracle can and likely already has dual-licensed > > > BTRFS. > > No.. talk to Chris Mason.. it depends on the linux kernel too much > > already to be available under anything, but GPLv2 > > If he really believes this, then he seems to be missinformed about legal > background. > > The question is: who wrote the btrfs code and who owns it. > > If Oracle pays him for writing the code, then Oracle owns the code and can > relicense it under any license they like. > > Jörg
I don't think anyone is arguing that Oracle can relicense their own copyrighted code as they see fit. The real question is, WHY would they do it? What would be the business motivation here? Chris Mason would most likely leave Oracle, Red Hat would hire him and fork the last GPL'd version of btrfs and Oracle would have relegated itself to a non-player in the Linux filesystem space... So, yes, they can do it if they want, I just think they're not THAT stupid. :) Ray _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
