On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 09:08:52AM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> 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.

s/can/can't/
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