From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752945AbXDQPa7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:30:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754476AbXDQPa7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:30:59 -0400 Received: from relay2.ptmail.sapo.pt ([212.55.154.22]:39115 "HELO sapo.pt" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752945AbXDQPa5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:30:57 -0400 X-AntiVirus: PTMail-AV 0.3-0.90.1 Message-ID: <4624E813.9000200@wizy.org> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:30:27 +0100 From: Ricardo Correia User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070403) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xavier Bestel CC: Alan Cox , Tomasz K?oczko , Theodore Tso , "David R. Litwin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea References: <20070417131045.GB18373@thunk.org> <20070417154814.632da1d9@the-village.bc.nu> <4624E275.7000705@wizy.org> <1176823385.14404.28.camel@frg-rhel40-em64t-04> In-Reply-To: <1176823385.14404.28.camel@frg-rhel40-em64t-04> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Xavier Bestel wrote: >> That is not quite true. They made ZFS available under the CDDL, which is >> an OSI-approved open-source license that is *less* restrictive than the >> GPL. The CDDL doesn't prevent anyone from using the ZFS code in >> combination with code under other licenses. > > You are wrong. Please read e.g. > > (maybe there are better analysis somewhere, but I don't know where). What I meant in saying the CDDL is less restrictive than the GPL is that the CDDL can be freely used in conjunction with code under other licenses, as long as the files licensed under CDDL keep the license notice, whereas the GPL requires that derived works also have to be licensed under the GPL, which is not possible in many cases (such as this one).