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>Oracle does not own the the copyright to all of OpenZFS True, but I don't think the OpenZFS developers would be against relicensing their code to be GPL compa
by gribbly 9y ago
>Oracle does not own the the copyright to all of OpenZFS
True, but I don't think the OpenZFS developers would be against relicensing their code to be GPL compatible,they are offering a Linux version of OpenZFS after all, so if Oracle would re/dual license their part of the code in a GPL compatible manner I'm sure the OpenZFS devs would do the same.
- protomyth 9y agoI would imagine the FreeBSD groups might object because it gives their project an edge over Linux. I can see if it went to a BSD license, but let's be real this is friggin Oracle. They won't do it because there is no actual advantage for them. Grateful developers are about their lowest priority. Maybe if it helped them win a contract that paid a lot of money they'd do it.
- 4ad 9y ago> I would imagine the FreeBSD groups might object because it gives their project an edge over Linux. Or, they might object because this hypothetical new license is incompatible with FreeBSD for various reasons, legal or otherwise, and they would not be able to get new contributions back into FreeBSD.