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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The FSF want to hold the reigns. If there's going to be any licence compatibility, they want to be the ones who decide, not the actual project owners; and the GPL3 is even worse. I suspect when the first GPL3 violation occurs, it'll be laughed out of court for it's almost EULA-like unenforceableness (yes that is a real word; that I just made up).