Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:04:56
Message-Id: 523abe28.5GncaO5UZyFGg/ZA%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS by Grant
1 Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > >> Interesting news related to ZFS:
4 > >>
5 > >> http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page
6 > >
7 > > I wonder if this will be added to the kernel at some point in the
8 > > future? May even be their intention?
9 >
10 > I think the CDDL license is what's keeping ZFS out of the kernel,
11 > although some argue that it should be integrated anyway. OpenZFS
12 > retains the same license.
13
14 As long as there are people that claim ZFS was derived from the Linux kernel
15 (i.e. is a derived work from GPL code and thus needs to be put under GPL),
16 there seems to be a problem.
17
18 I am not sure whether it is possible to educate these people...
19
20 Jörg
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