On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Philipp Thomas
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:56:27 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
Sigh, it seems YOU are having problems shedding your world view....
OK, then I'll make it extra precise: given that Suns CDDL is incompatible with the GPL, no one distributing a Linux kernel can also offer the ported ZFS. And because of that, porting ZFS isn't very attractive.
Ok, Granted, now that you've demonstrated you can at least appreciate the end-user's point of view. Not attractive to Distros or companies like Novell to spend any amount of time on, because they can't really distribute it. (They could spend the time, and that might be time well spent, but they could not include it in Opensuse or SLED/S.) However, it sounds like a really nifty file system, and, if a way were to be found to avoid having to have it run in userland someone like Packman or Guru could package it. Believe it or not, Philipp, I'm not on your case, I just think its important to state clearly the limitations imposed by the GPL other than stating "its prohibited to use it" or " the license makes it impossible to directly port it to Linux.". Neither of these is true. Its merely prohibited to be distributed WITH Linux. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org