Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Apr 2007 19:05 UTC, submitted by Rahul
A recent discussion on the lkml examined the possibility of a Linux implementation of Sun's ZFS. It was pointed out that the file system is released under the GPL-incompatible CDDL, and that Sun has filed numerous patents to prevent ZFS from being reverse engineered. Max Yudin pointed out, "according to Jeff Bonwick's blog Sun issued 56 patents on ZFS, but I have no idea what they patented. Sorry, binary compatible ZFS reimplementation with GPL license might not be legal."
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2006-04-28
It's extremely unpleasant the way sun will do everything in their power to prevent their Open Source technologies from being used in Linux, sun don't care for Free software.
I suppose if there's any chance that a future draft of the GPLv3 is accepted as a license for the Linux kernel that will see Sun dismiss the concept of GPLv3 licensed OpenSolaris for good.