Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755672AbYGUOvU (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:51:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754943AbYGUOvF (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:51:05 -0400 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:6479 "EHLO ns.firmix.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754921AbYGUOvD (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:51:03 -0400 Subject: Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources) From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: "Fred ." Cc: Kevin Winchester , Christoph Hellwig , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <487FA143.9010109@garzik.org> <20080720105724.GA8921@infradead.org> <20080721072801.GA6115@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Firmix Software GmbH Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:50:54 +0200 Message-Id: <1216651854.2657.35.camel@spike.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-8.el5_2.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Firmix-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on ns.firmix.at X-Firmix-Spam-Score: -2.275 () AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SARE_SUB_OBFU_OTHER,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Firmix-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.275 required=5 X-Spam-Score: -2.275 () AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SARE_SUB_OBFU_OTHER,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Firmix-Envelope-From: X-Firmix-Envelope-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 936 Lines: 24 On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 11:40 -0300, Kevin Winchester wrote: [....] > > But it may be covered by patents by Sun. So maybe not allowed make an > > implementation. :( > > Maybe you should consult SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center) first or something. Since basically *you* wanted that feature in the first place (and for whatever reason do not even start to work on it), I would have assumed that *you* already checked out all implications - especially the legal ones. So which patents may be relevant IYHO? Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- 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/