On Tuesday 10 June 2008 17:35, Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:35:10 +0200, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
- has anyone tried SUN's ZFS on SuSE? Can it be done, is it at all feasible?
No, because the License Sun choose for ZFS is incompatible with the GPL (which I think is why Sun did choose it). So unless Sun changes the license, there is no legal way to use ZFS in Linux.
Don't confuse "use" with "distribute." Even if a piece of software (application, driver, file system, etc.) is not compatible with Linux's zealous free software license, it does not follow that no end use may incorporate that GPL-incompatible software into their own installation. We have not yet reached the point where processor hardware incorporates license enforcement circuits or microcode...
Philipp
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