Ten Reasons To *NOT* Use ZFS:

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 6/23/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 00:59 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > >
> > > Does that mean that all programs using a kernel interface must
> > > be GPL'd now?
> >
> > Maybe. Whatever GPL says and whatever is decided by the courts if anyone
> > decides to challenge it.
>
> Since things take years to go through the courts, I guess the place
> we'll first find out if something automatically falls under the
> copyright of the first kernel where it was used is when we find
> out what SCO actually owns.

at the rate things are going SCO will go broke and/or out of business first.

>
> > > That would pretty much render it useless for
> > > running commercial applications and has been the specific modification
> > > I've seen in the COPYING file distributed with the kernel - but
> > > I haven't looked recently...
> > >
> >
> > Which Linus himself has said is not an exception or modification of the
> > license.
>
> He says that now.  In the early days he was widely quoted as saying
> the opposite but google wasn't around then so I can't just grab
> a copy to see the exact context.  I thought it was a big reason for
> the early popularity of Linux that pre-existing code could be
> used in driver modules.

What he says now is what matters.


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