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Always admired ZFS since when it came out. The talks by the creators were so enlightening. The license for this is CDDL? Wasn't that the license for the origin
by atonse 7y ago
Always admired ZFS since when it came out. The talks by the creators were so enlightening.
The license for this is CDDL? Wasn't that the license for the original ZFS, which was the whole reason people had to port it? (apart from kernel sys calls, etc)
- beatgammit 7y agoThey didn't rewrite ZFS for Linux support, they did the syscall stuff in such a way that it's reasonably compatible license-wise. I don't know the specifics, I just know it's a forked codebase that improves compatibility with Linux. FreeBSD moved to this new codebase because it is getting a lot of attention and better support.
- p_l 7y agoThe CDDL code is not derivative of GPL code, and as such doesn't have to be compliant with GPL. There is a glue layer which implements enough of Solaris kernel calls to allow CDDL code to operate, and this layer is dual licensed AFAIK.