> If you ship ZFS with Linux then those clauses I mentioned may apply. Whether that will hold up in court? I don't know. I'm sorry, but this is FUD by another

> If you ship ZFS with Linux then those clauses I mentioned may apply. Whether that will hold up in court? I don't know. I'm sorry, but this is FUD by another name. This is a "Maybe there is something wrong with the CDDL too?" take, not a "This. See, this here is the problem with the CDDL" take. FOSS people are supposed to be against this stuff. > That is the issue; if ZFS was MIT or GPL then there obviously wouldn't an issue and any lawsuit would be completely baseless and any judge would throw it out in an instance. But with CDDL this is a lot less clear Let me get this straight -- the law is complex, but it would be less complex if we had a different license, also we don't like this license and Oracle, so we won't even try with this license, even though it may not be an issue. All of this is a giant turn off for me. I don't find it hard to believe that Canonical made the determination it did, because they're not beholden to a view that we should be scared of Oracle for indeterminate reasons, all the time. And since you brought it up -- when Oracle sued Google, the basis of the suit was a claim that Google had violated the GPL because of, yes, another ridiculously broad interpretation of copyright law centered around the GPL. These over-broad interpretations, and attendant scared straight FUD campaigns, are not a service to the Linux/FOSS community, and Linux and the FSF and their minions should stop now. We should pick a side and the side should be in the majority of Oracle v. Google, and a long line of cases that say roughly similar things, not FSF, et. al., craziness.