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From: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
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To: Ignatich <ignatich@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea
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Ignatich writes:
 > You might want to look at this discussion:
 > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2007-April/027041.html

Licenses involved cover file system _code_, rather than storage format
that is openly specified. Just stand up and implement driver for zfs
format from scratch under whatever license you want. This is exactly how
Linux supports "foreign" file systems (ntfs, fat, etc.).

Nikita.