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> Honestly, this whole debacle could have been avoided if ZFS had been relicensed under some kind of compatible license like one of the BSD licenses. Or if Lin
by dap 10y ago
> Honestly, this whole debacle could have been avoided if ZFS had been relicensed under some kind of compatible license like one of the BSD licenses.
Or if Linux had been similarly relicensed. I think that's actually more reasonable, since it's the Linux license that may take issue with CDDL code, not the reverse.
Besides that, ZFS is covered by several patents, and the CDDL grants a patent license. If ZFS had been BSD-licensed, you'd have a much worse debacle.
- Grishnakh 10y agoIt's impossible to relicense Linux. Linus has talked about this in the past: he'd have to track down literally thousands of contributors to get their permission. Many of them are probably impossible to track down, some are surely dead. There's no feasible way to relicense a project like Linux. ZFS, OTOH, is owned by a single entity, so relicensing it would be simple. It should be completely possible to make a new license that grants a patent license but is also GPL compatible.