Re: zfs cddl & gpl

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 05:48:10PM +0000, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> Look, I haven't been living in a cave. I've read the discussion about
> ZFS being incompatible with GPL, so it can't be ported to the kernel.
> 
> But I'm speaking of porting it to FUSE.

Conceptually I suspect it would be fine. Its a hairy area of derivative works
and the lawyers can worry about that. Whether you would for practical reasons
need to reimplement it anyway to get it working in fuse is another good question
as is the amount of support you would get