Re: and calls kernel API's directly is a derivative work

Posted Feb 20, 2016 2:22 UTC (Sat) by rahvin (guest, #16953)
In reply to: Re: and calls kernel API's directly is a derivative work by pizza
Parent article: Kirkland: ZFS licensing and Linux

Don't blame Oracle for the CDDL, that was Sun's doing. They wanted to make sure Solaris had something Linux didn't, so they wrote a deliberately incompatible license. The simple fact is Sun did this before Oracle even thought about purchasing Sun and it was entirely deliberate. This is the reason up until this that no one dared ship ZFS as part of a Linux Distribution and all the code, modules and even packages were outside the main distribution channels.

Personally I think if Oracle decides they don't want this they will kick Canonical's butt in court.

Re: and calls kernel API's directly is a derivative work

Posted Feb 20, 2016 14:57 UTC (Sat) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> Don't blame Oracle for the CDDL, that was Sun's doing.

Oh, that wasn't my intent, and I completely agree with what you wrote.

But it is worth pointing out that Oracle could chose to re-license ZFS if they were so inclined. Personally that's the outcome I'm hoping for (ZFS is frickin' awesome!).

Re: Don't blame Oracle for the CDDL, that was Sun's doing

Posted Feb 22, 2016 21:40 UTC (Mon) by ldo (guest, #40946) [Link]

Yes, we can blame Oracle for the CDDL. Because they have assimilated Sun, and all its copyrights. They could rescind the CDDL if they wanted to, and replace it with something sane, but they choose not to.