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On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: |
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> »Q« <boxcars@×××.net> wrote: |
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> > Also, no one reading it would learn anything more than they could have |
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> > by googling a little while. All the arguments about whether copyleft is |
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> > more or less freedomish than non-copyleft are already out there for |
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> > anyone who wants to read them. |
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> Speaking about the filesystems, the GPL limits the freedom to use the code |
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> and for this reason, brtfs cannot be used by Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, |
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> ..... |
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> As a rule of thumb: of you like to widely spread an implementation don't |
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> license it under GPL. |
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> Jörg |
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or dual licence it. But Sun didn't dual licence their ZFS code either so ... |
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