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Getting grubby with ZFS

Getting grubby with ZFS

Posted Dec 16, 2010 23:34 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: Getting grubby with ZFS by jmalcolm
Parent article: Getting grubby with ZFS

The relicensing scenario is also possible with the FSF since they require copyright attribution. They could take all their code and simply relicense it under a closed source license if they wanted (however unlikely this is to occur).

Actually, I don't think they could. aiui, that would be a breach of the contract assigning them the copyright. And as such, if they did release it under a closed source licence, there would be the mother of all legal explosions as far as FLOSS is concerned ...

Cheers,
Wol


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