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Re:FreeBSD and ZFS by pilif on Saturday February 27, 2016 @02:27AM (#11186399)
> Who is injured exactly by integrating a kernel module with primarily CDDL code with the Linux kernel

Oracle as the sole copyright holder of zfs might be because thy lose potential Solaris sales when zfs is distributed with Linux this way. At least they could argue that before some court

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Re:FreeBSD and ZFS by cyphar on Saturday February 27, 2016 @02:29AM (#11186405)
Oracle was the original copyright holder before the OpenSolaris fiasco and Illumos was forked.
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Re:FreeBSD and ZFS by pilif on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @02:22AM (#11208539)
There still are a lot of lines in a lot of files that were written by Sun employees which are now owned by Oracle. So the same way a kernel developer has a potential standing to sue canonical over their potential GPL violation, Oracle has the same potential standing to sue canonical over their potential CDDL violation.

It's just that oracle is ever so much more likely to sue and actually win (see: the google api's are copyrightable case)

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