Star ZFS Patches for FreeBSD
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 19th Nov 2006 19:04 UTC, submitted by Tanked
FreeBSD The first set of patches are available to compile the ZFS file system module on FreeBSD. "This is a first set of patches, which allows to use ZFS file system from OpenSolaris on FreeBSD. To apply the patch you need to have recent FreeBSD source (be sure you have rev. 1.284 of src/sys/kern/kern_synch.c). To try it out you need i386 machine (this is what I tested) and kernel without WITNESS compiled in (there are probably some warnings still). Currently it can only be compiled as a kernel module."
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RE[3]: ZFS would be nice in Linux
by what on Mon 20th Nov 2006 08:55 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: ZFS would be nice in Linux"
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Member since:
2006-01-04

'The BSDs can link against CDDL'd software without having to change the license of their own code, something that isn't possible with the GPL. '

Actually, the BSD 'modified' licence ( the one FreeBSD uses ) is GPL compatible, they wouldn't have to change their licence...
Please, don't talk about what you don't know.

Edited 2006-11-20 08:57

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the_trapper Member since:
2005-07-07

Actually the BSD 'modified' license you're referring to is only GPL compatible in one direction, the "giving" end. Any BSD code can be embedded within GPL code without any licensing issues whatsoever (sans licensing clause, of course), but GPL code will "contaminate" any BSD code it touches and thus force a license change of any BSD licensed code.

The original poster was actually correct, so they weren't talking about what they didn't know.

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Babi Asu Member since:
2006-02-11

"infect" is more correct word ;)

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