On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Peter Jeremy wrote:
Irrespective of the above, there is nothing requiring Oracle to release any future btrfs or ZFS improvements (or even bugfixes). They can't retrospectively change the license on already released code but they can put a different (non-OSS) license on any new code.
I don't have much knowledge of the history of btrfs, but unless Oracle is the sole copyright holder for btrfs (seems unlikely), they will have to distribute any source updates for binaries they distribute.
Depending on how CDDL is written, and depending on if all contributors signed a contract assigning copyrights to Sun, Oracle may be forced to distribute source updates to zfs if it has been 'tainted' by contributions by outside developers.
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