On Tue, 8 May 2007, Trygve Laugstøl wrote:
currently ZFS is only available on Solaris, parts of it have been released
under GPLv2, but it doesn't look like enough of it to be ported to Linux
(enough was released for grub to be able to access it read-only, but not
the full filesystem). there are also patent concerns that are preventing
any porting to Linux.
This is not entirely correct. ZFS is only under the CDDL license and it has
been ported to FreeBSD.
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2007-April/026922.html
I wonder how they handled the license issues? I thought that if you
combined stuff that was BSD licensed with stuff with a more restrictive
license the result was under the more restrictive license. thanks for the
info.
here's a link about the GPLv2 stuff for zfs
http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/zfs_under_gplv2_already_exists
