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From my understanding, Sun back in the day, and Oracle now, cannot release everything under the GPL due to contractual obligations. There's a reason they wrote
by cthalupa 11y ago
From my understanding, Sun back in the day, and Oracle now, cannot release everything under the GPL due to contractual obligations. There's a reason they wrote the CDDL in the first place.
I can't find the talks now, but I believe Cantrill and others have spoken about this previously.
My memory is somewhat fuzzy, so I might be wrong on this.
- ryao 11y agoThat was Solaris and that was regarding putting all of it under an OSS license, not necessarily the GPL. There were a few tiny bits that they just could not open source. Oracle could release their fork of ZFS under any license they wish.