Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466379 --- Comment #6 from Denis Leroy <denis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2008-10-27 10:47:08 EDT --- I exchanged emails with Sun's Open Source Community Manager and Sun's Open Source Chief Officer (Simon Phipps). The message I got from them is very clear: - Sun would love to see fuse-zfs being added to the Fedora distribution - There should be *no* legal issues, neither license nor patents related, that should block the review and acceptance of this package in Fedora. To be more precise: 1) There are no license issues between Fuse-ZFS and ZFS itself. http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Under_what_conditions_may_I_distribute_a_filesystem_which_uses_libfusex3f 2) Fuse-ZFS has no patent issues in regards to ZFS. Fuse-ZFS is CDDL, and as such receives all the patent protection that CDDL grants. This is explicit in the CDDL license, 2.1.b and 2.2.b (http://www.sun.com/cddl/cddl.html). The patent protection applies to ZFS modifications and derivative works as well. This means that Fuse-ZFS can be modified, can be redistributed, or even forked for that matter. As long as the modifications are made public, just as with the GPL. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review