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So, why OpenZFS can't fix their license ?
by ilyt 3y ago
So, why OpenZFS can't fix their license ?
- toast0 3y agoOpenZFS is a fork of the Sun/Oracle release of ZFS. The OpenZFS maintainers cannot change the license without consent of the copyright owners, and Oracle is unlikely to consent. Oracle could potentially change the terms in a future release of CDDL, and that might work, too. Similarly, Linux probably has too many contributors, some of which are no longer living, to come to an agreement on a fixed license either. Although, license changes do happen; OpenSSL did one recently, but I think there are fewer contributors.
- cromka 3y ago> OpenSSL did one recently VLC did, too, although with probably even less contributors.
- wkat4242 3y agoBecause it uses code released by Sun under the CDDL. Oracle has since closed sourced the whole thing again so they're not going to change the license of this old code, they don't even want it out there but they can't take it back. Doing a clean room rewrite would be a huge job.