[Bug 466379] Review Request: zfs-fuse - ZFS ported to Linux FUSE

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--- Comment #6 from Denis Leroy <denis at poolshark.org>  2008-10-27 10:47:08 EDT ---
I exchanged emails with Sun's Open Source Community Manager and Sun's Open
Source Chief Officer (Simon Phipps). The message I got from them is very clear:

- Sun would love to see fuse-zfs being added to the Fedora distribution

- There should be *no* legal issues, neither license nor patents related, that
should block the review and acceptance of this package in Fedora.


To be more precise:

1) There are no license issues between Fuse-ZFS and ZFS itself.
http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Under_what_conditions_may_I_distribute_a_filesystem_which_uses_libfusex3f

2) Fuse-ZFS has no patent issues in regards to ZFS.

Fuse-ZFS is CDDL, and as such receives all the patent protection that CDDL
grants. This is explicit in the CDDL license, 2.1.b and 2.2.b
(http://www.sun.com/cddl/cddl.html). The patent protection applies to ZFS
modifications and derivative works as well. This means that Fuse-ZFS can be
modified, can be redistributed, or even forked for that matter. As long as the
modifications are made public, just as with the GPL.

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