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The git tree is the source code

Posted Nov 10, 2012 13:01 UTC (Sat) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: The git tree is the source code by epa
Parent article: Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog)

If no kernel copyright holder objects, then RedHat have no problem, regardless of the merit of this argument (I think it's pretty clear that RedHats' preferred form for working on their kernel package is NOT a single, unified tarball). So a kernel hacker would have to notify them to desist and be prepared to sue them if they do not. How likely is that?

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Posted Nov 10, 2012 13:18 UTC (Sat) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link]

I'm sure a handful of Oracle employees have some code in the kernel that they hold copyright on. I definitely favor Red Hat here, but I'm just saying. At the very least, think btrfs.

What is weird to me... is that btrfs is the "zfs for Linux" but it so happens that Oracle also owns zfs. They could change (or dual license) zfs for Linux if they wanted to, but no... they'd prefer to have one product that is ok with the GPL (btrfs) and one that is not (zfs).