Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932129AbVKTXjl (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:39:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932130AbVKTXjl (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:39:41 -0500 Received: from 41-052.adsl.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.41.52]:33034 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932129AbVKTXjk (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:39:40 -0500 To: Tarkan Erimer Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Sun's ZFS and Linux References: <9611fa230511181538g3e8ec403uafa9ed32b560fb0c@mail.gmail.com> <20051119172337.GA24765@thunk.org> <9611fa230511201312r5f43e8ady7023b4bde170596e@mail.gmail.com> From: Nix X-Emacs: more boundary conditions than the Middle East. Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 23:39:08 +0000 In-Reply-To: <9611fa230511201312r5f43e8ady7023b4bde170596e@mail.gmail.com> (Tarkan Erimer's message of "20 Nov 2005 21:12:42 -0000") Message-ID: <87r79a7uub.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Corporate Culture, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1280 Lines: 28 On 20 Nov 2005, Tarkan Erimer yowled: > On 11/19/05, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> That wouldn't be a "port", it would have to be a complete >> reimplementation from scratch. And, of course, of further concern >> would be whether or not there are any patents that Sun may have filed >> covering ZFS. If the patents have only been licensed for CDDL >> licensed code, then that won't help a GPL'ed covered reimplementation. > > Thanks for the explanation. BTW, I wonder something: Is there any > possibility to give GPL an exception to include and/or link to CDDL > code? You'd have to get agreement from *all* the kernel's past contributors. As some of them are dead this is not likely to happen. (Well, OK, you could isolate their code and rewrite it but this would be a big and annoying job, so you'd need a very compelling reason. One extra filesystem isn't likely to be good enough.) -- `Y'know, London's nice at this time of year. If you like your cities freezing cold and full of surly gits.' --- David Damerell - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/