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Oracle has nothing whatsoever to do with this code: this is OpenZFS, out of the illumos' source tree.
by Annatar 10y ago
Oracle has nothing whatsoever to do with this code: this is OpenZFS, out of the illumos' source tree.
- ZenoArrow 10y agoIf there's money to be made, Oracle will make defending ZFS their business, regardless of the source of the implementation. Look at what's happening over Java with the Oracle vs. Google court cases: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/round-2-of-oracle-v-google-is-an-unpredictable-trial-over-api-fair-use/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/round-2-of-oracle...
- Annatar 10y agohttps://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2732 https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2732
- ZenoArrow 10y agoDid you not read what I said? It doesn't matter whether it's a fork or not. If Oracle wins the current lawsuit over Java, it's arguable they could go after OpenZFS too as the lawsuit is based on whether the design of software (not the implementation, the design) can be owned by a company. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google,_Inc https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Goog.... "The appeals court reversed the district court on the central issue, holding that the "structure, sequence and organization" of an API was copyrightable."
- Annatar 10y agoJava and illumos are licensed under two completely different licenses, and neither illumos code base, nor OpenZFS are an application programming interface.