From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754011AbXDQNKu (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:10:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754013AbXDQNKu (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:10:50 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:58505 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754011AbXDQNKs (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:10:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:10:45 -0400 From: Theodore Tso To: "David R. Litwin" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea Message-ID: <20070417131045.GB18373@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Tso , "David R. Litwin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 02:54:32AM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > > The license that protects the code we write is far from nonsense. > > I know. In the end, this is the reason this topic is being discussed. > > I suggest the first thing you do is contact the ZFS developers and > convince them to release their code under a license that's GPL > compatible, then we can start looking at a Linux port. > > I began by contacting them. One of the devs there told me to contact the > Linux devs. Well, that was totally useless answer from the ZFS developers. What he should have told you is to contact Sun management, since they are the only ones who can decide whether or not to release ZFS under a GPL license, and more importantly, to give a patent license for any patents they may have filed in the course of developing ZFS. This is not anything Linux developers can help you with. - Ted