Linus on GPLv3 and ZFS

Posted Jun 12, 2007 20:43 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Linus on GPLv3 and ZFS by arcticwolf
Parent article: Linus on GPLv3 and ZFS

If all of the kernel code were GPLv2 || GPLv3, it could be combined with a GPLv3 ZFS. The collection as a whole would be GPLv3 only if ZFS were added, but ZFS could be a module, and everything would be legal, while embedded software developers who want to do DRM could still use the rest of Linux (except ZFS).

Linus on GPLv3 and ZFS

Posted Jun 12, 2007 22:28 UTC (Tue) by cyperpunks (subscriber, #39406) [Link] (2 responses)

Linus is right, Sun don't want Linux source code, they want Linux' kernel hackers (and
then later Linux' users).

Of course CDDL is hopeless is this regard as hackers must transfer copyright to Sun, who
want to do that?

Sun have to fix the bootstrap problem too: it's now not possible to build a complete
free Solaris "distribution". You must use some non free Sun tools at some point.

Who wants to contribute to project you can't build yourself?

Linus on GPLv3 and ZFS

Posted Jun 13, 2007 0:00 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

To be fair, Sun's launching a project, called "Indiana", to correct that deficiency and produce something that would resemble a GNU/Linux distribution. It will take them some time to do it, but I'm looking forward to it.

Linus on GPLv3 and ZFS

Posted Jun 13, 2007 12:36 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Of course CDDL is hopeless is this regard as hackers must transfer copyright to Sun, who want to do that?

This is false.

You need to sign a contributors agreement with Sun, granting Sun joint ownership, if you wish to have Sun incorporate any contribution to various open-source projects which Sun founded and maintain (such as OpenSolaris, amongst other projects).

However the CDDL does not require any copyright transfership, and you're quite free to take and hack away on CDDLed code, like OpenSolaris, without giving copyright ownership to Sun or anyone else.