> what on earth is that supposed to mean? It means that the original authors could have originally intended to write a recipe for chocolate chip cookies and so

> what on earth is that supposed to mean? It means that the original authors could have originally intended to write a recipe for chocolate chip cookies and somehow accidentally wrote the CDDL. That wouldn't change a thing and it wouldn't make the CDDL any better or worse since it would have exactly the same words. The intent is irrelevant, all that matters is the end result. > ZFS could be relicenced in ten minutes if they cared. Indeed, I hope that they do. A copyfree license like the BSD licenses would make ZFS significantly more popular and I think would have saved all the effort sunk into btrfs had it been done earlier.