Miles Nordin <car...@ivy.net> wrote: > dd> 2 * Copyright (C) 2007 Oracle. All rights reserved. > dd> 3 * > dd> 4 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > dd> 5 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public > dd> 6 * License v2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. > > dd> > <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable.git;a=blob;f=fs/btrfs/root-tree.c;h=2d958be761c84556b39c60afa39999b0f3fd75d6;hb=HEAD> > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable.git;a=blob;f=fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c;h=f488fac04d99ea45eea93607bbf17c021b5b2207;hb=HEAD > > 1 /* > 2 * Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat. All rights reserved. > 3 * > 4 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > 5 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public > 6 * License v2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. > > see, that's good, and is a realistic future scenario for ZFS, AFAICT: > there can be a branch that's safe to collaborate on, which cannot go > into Solaris 11 and cannot be taken proprietary by Nexenta, either.
It seems that you miss the basics of Copyright. In order to find out whether Redhat really owns rights, you first need to find out whether this code is copyrightable at all. Small portions of code just become a part of the original work unless they have a sufficient level of creation. If you stay with OpenSource, even larger parts are no problem as minor contributors do not get the right to decide about the "way of marketing". Minor contributors just have the right to get payed by the right percentage of the whole, which is a simple computaion in the OSS world. For more information, see the article from the wife of Eric Raymond: http://www.catb.org/~esr/Licensing-HOWTO.html She is a lawyer.... http://www.osscc.net/en/licenses.html 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
