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The basic problem is that both licenses have a "you must redistribute under this license, and you can't impose additional restrictions"-type clause. There are s
by arp242 2y ago
The basic problem is that both licenses have a "you must redistribute under this license, and you can't impose additional restrictions"-type clause. There are some other differences between the licences, but that's what the incompatibility is about.
Some have argued that this may not actually constitute an incompatibility, but not many are keen to "fuck around and find out" with Oracle's lawyers. So here we are.
- ChocolateGod 2y ago> but not many are keen to "fuck around and find out" with Oracle's lawyers Oracle could spend 10 minutes and clear this up, but the fact they don't should be fear enough about any large company shipping with OpenZFS code. See Oracle vs Google
- arp242 2y agoI'm not sure if it's that easy, because all the contributors to OpenZFS also need to sign off an a license change, right? That said, they did relicense DTrace to GPL a few years back. but I don't really know the details on that, or how hard it was, or if that's also possible for OpenZFS.