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> As such, we again ask Oracle to respect community norms against license proliferation and simply relicense its copyrights in ZFS under a GPLv2-compatible lice
by ivl 9y ago
> As such, we again ask Oracle to respect community norms against license proliferation and simply relicense its copyrights in ZFS under a GPLv2-compatible license.
Why in the world would they do that, though? Oracle pretty clearly does not value community goodwill, nor do they gain anything by trying to go through the process of re-licensing ZFS.
- bubblethink 9y agoThey gain to sell ZoL themselves with their own RHEL derivative distro. And they get all the usual open-source community benefits. It may even become necessary for them to do so, perhaps not in the short term, for Solaris' long term future is uncertain, while Linux and ZoL continue to get better.
- tedunangst 9y agoKind of a strange request, too. CDDL predates GPLv3 by a few years. If they care so much about license proliferation, they should argue against GPLv3 too.
- belorn 9y agoThe kernel isn't licensed under GPLv3.