From: "Craig Sanders" <cas@taz.net.au>
On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 12:25:37PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: Oracle as the copyright holder on the Sun-developed ZFS could solve the license problem by re-licensing it as GPL or BSD (preferably BSD so that FreeBSD and Illumos etc could use it too) but that's extremely unlikely to happen.
It is part of the "standard FreeBSD kernel". I am not an expert in licenses but it looks as the current ZFS license (CDDL, AFAIK) is not an issue in the BSD world. BTW: There is OpenZFS now:(http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page) "OpenZFS was announced in September 2013 as the truly open source successor to the ZFS project. Our community brings together developers from the illumos, FreeBSD, Linux, and OS X platforms, and a wide range of companies that build products on top of OpenZFS." Nobody knows what Oracle is doing with ZFS (especially if it comes to open source). But they both can easily co-exist, similar as the various UFS filesystems. They all developed in various ways. E.g. Sun added filesystem journaling to it, something that wasn't happening under FreeBSD for a while. There were soft updates and volume journaling instead. Other projects and companies added other stuff to it. And there is some "cross-pollination" between the various projects. Regards Peter
On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 03:17:38PM +1000, Petros wrote:
From: "Craig Sanders" <cas@taz.net.au>
On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 12:25:37PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: Oracle as the copyright holder on the Sun-developed ZFS could solve the license problem by re-licensing it as GPL or BSD (preferably BSD so that FreeBSD and Illumos etc could use it too) but that's extremely unlikely to happen.
It is part of the "standard FreeBSD kernel". I am not an expert in licenses but it looks as the current ZFS license (CDDL, AFAIK) is not an issue in the BSD world.
yeah, i know. which is why i think re-licensing it as GPL would be a bad idea. re-licensing it as BSD would work for everyone. i don't think that either is at all likely to happen. i'd be extremly surprised if it did.
BTW: There is OpenZFS now:(http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page)
yep.
Nobody knows what Oracle is doing with ZFS (especially if it comes to open source).
except letting it slip through their fingers. that's clear to anyone who looks at what's happening. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
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