3 ms·
No new territory is covered in this article. It's a lot of words that skips over the central question: are CDDL and GPL incompatible and if so what does that me
by cmurf 8y ago
No new territory is covered in this article. It's a lot of words that skips over the central question: are CDDL and GPL incompatible and if so what does that mean for the user?
The article addresses this the wrong way:
>Sun deliberately made the CDDL incompatible with the GPL!
Doesn't matter whether it's deliberate or not. And it's not merely one opinion, it's GNU, FSF, SFC, Debian, Fedora - quite a lot I'm not going to list them all, who do consider CDDL a free software license, but also consider it incompatible with GPL.
I have yet to read anything from Linux developers or users that they don't like ZFS, quite the contrary. And the solution is distros won't package pre-built binaries, you have to compile it yourself. And it's not that difficult.
The article seems to argue that some Linux people in power hate ZFS (no evidence) and use CDDL GPL incompatibility as an excuse to keep it away from Linux users (again no evidence).
- apple4ever 8y agoExcept for the evidence of making calls GPL only, for no legal or technical reason. All they have to do is allow the calls. (Its a silly restriction anyway).