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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by ciupicri on Thursday September 10, 2009 @03:16PM (#815944)
Or even better BSD so that BSDs can integrate it, too.
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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by bd_ on Thursday September 10, 2009 @04:17PM (#816093)
BSDs already can; the problem is GPLv2 doesn't let you link with _anything_ else. FreeBSD, for example: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS
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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by ciupicri on Thursday September 10, 2009 @06:03PM (#816303)
That's right, I forgot about FreeBSD :-D Anyway, I still wonder with what other licenses it is incompatible.
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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by zts on Thursday September 10, 2009 @08:28PM (#816512)
On the contrary - GPL doesn't let you link with much that isn't GPL. BSD and CDDL - which ZFS is licensed under - are far more open.
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Re:Oracle's Declaration to Sun Customers ... and IBM by ajross on Thursday September 10, 2009 @10:39PM (#816699)
Must we have this flame war again? Or if you insist, can you please at least pack your arguments into one post, complete with competing definitions of "free", and "open", and sneering sideways attacks at the other side's development model or developer personalities?
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