On 03/16/2016 05:05 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| From: Mark Haney <mark.haney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | Ubuntu's using OpenZFS, which is under the CDDL. IANAL, but I don't see | that as a showstopper for Fedora including it in the future. <https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/> My bet is that those who want to think it is OK will get away with it but that they are technically wrong. GPL enforcement is a pain. CDDL enforcement is oracular. Interestingly, BTRFS work started at Oracle before it acquired Sun. It is the default filesystem for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12. See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs>
Keep in mind that SuSE is not based in the United States and can, if they so choose, thumb their noses at US patent and copyright law. Red Hat IS based in the US and cannot (well, will not) knowingly violate US law. This is is one reason MP3 decoders, for example, are not part of the standard Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS distributions as there is a patent on it. Not everyone agrees that the patent is legitimate or enforceable, but it is present. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - You know the old saying--any technology sufficiently advanced is - - indistinguishable from a Perl script - - --Programming Perl, 2nd Edition - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
