Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> wrote:
On Thursday 2016-04-07 10:22, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> wrote:
On Wednesday 2016-04-06 23:13, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
Is there any chance of OpenSUSE gaining ZFS integration? esepcially for root file system installs?
Why, did the legal situation change in the meantime?
Just because the legal situation did not change and because Suse seems to be based on real legal ratings rather than FUD from some anti-OSS people, I would expect a real chance...
openSUSE ships cdrtools, which has a similar situation(?), so perhaps ZOL is fine for the same reason, but who am I to say..
There is a really related legal "essay" from March 2005 that explains that filesystems are usually independent works and that integrating a file system with a different license than GPL is just fine for Linux. This is in the Book Die GPL kommentiert und erklärt (Till Jaeger et. al, O'Reilly März 2005) Note that this are the lawyers that work for Harald Welte... See: http://www.osscc.net/en/gplger.html#gpl-kernel Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org