Oracle buying Sun

Posted Apr 20, 2009 14:39 UTC (Mon) by masoncl (subscriber, #47138)
In reply to: Oracle buying Sun by knobunc
Parent article: Oracle buying Sun

This doesn't change our Btrfs plans at all, it is still a key project for us.

Oracle buying Sun

Posted Apr 20, 2009 17:10 UTC (Mon) by fuhchee (guest, #40059) [Link]

Good luck, Chris, exciting times.

Oracle buying Sun

Posted Apr 20, 2009 19:00 UTC (Mon) by vaurora (guest, #38407) [Link] (2 responses)

And Oracle owns the ZFS patents now. :)

Oracle buying Sun

Posted Apr 20, 2009 20:43 UTC (Mon) by jd (guest, #26381) [Link] (1 responses)

That's because Oracle's the only company with a database able to search Sun's ZFS patents.

LNQOL!

Posted Apr 20, 2009 23:30 UTC (Mon) by xoddam (guest, #2322) [Link]

(sound of a million subvocalised chuckles)

Btrfs and ZFS under the same roof

Posted Apr 20, 2009 19:24 UTC (Mon) by sbishop (guest, #33061) [Link] (2 responses)

Is this because it would be easier to complete Btrfs than relicense ZFS and try to port it to Linux? I understand that they are not equivalent, but I have understood them to have similar goals.

On a general note, I am trying to see how all of this is going affect Linux and Java--I don't care much about MySQL--and from my perspective it isn't looking good. But I would love to be proved wrong!

Btrfs and ZFS under the same roof

Posted Apr 20, 2009 20:03 UTC (Mon) by knobunc (guest, #4678) [Link] (1 responses)

Well... I could believe any of the following
A) Oracle decides to play nice and give ZFS to Linux by changing the licensing
B) Oracle decides they want to protect ZFS
C) Oracle doesn't care about this either way

The consequences being:
A) Oracle kills funding supporting Btrfs work
B) Oracle kills funding supporting Btrfs work AND gets hostile with the patents
C) Oracle does nothing and perhaps keeps funding Btrfs

(Tangentially... I wonder if they will open up dtrace's licensing too).

-ben

Btrfs and ZFS under the same roof

Posted Apr 20, 2009 22:45 UTC (Mon) by trasz (guest, #45786) [Link]

Oracle cannot "get hostile" with the ZFS patents, because the CDDL license grants the users right to
use these patents, and this will apply to the existing code even if Oracle decides to relicense ZFS
under a more restrictive license.