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Will this somehow liberate ZFS?
by xattt 11mo ago
Will this somehow liberate ZFS?
- legitronics 11mo agoIt’ll just make their auditors and legal team desperate for money, which is kinda horrifying to consider.
- throw0101d 11mo agoHow does ZFS need to be liberated?
- tosti 11mo agoThey took the entire Solaris code back to proprietary source and kept improving ZFS themselves. For instance, they added encryption.
- johncolanduoni 11mo agoEven if Oracle evaporated and their contemporary ZFS source became unencumbered, I doubt OpenZFS would want to try and merge significantly parts. They already have their own encryption implementation for example.
- throw0101d 11mo ago> They took the entire Solaris code back to proprietary source and kept improving ZFS themselves. And OpenZFS/Linux/FreeBSD kept improving ZFS as well. > For instance, they added encryption. As did OpenZFS.
- limagnolia 11mo agoThere is debate as to whether the FreeZFS license (CDDL) is compatible with the GPL, which is why FreeZFS is not part of the Linux Kernel. Some distros are baking it in, but there has long been concern about if merging it violates the license or not.
- johncolanduoni 11mo agoIt could make it worse. IP from companies that got chopped up and sold for parts can be a nightmare. You may have to do deals with multiple parties, and it can be unclear who owns what (even to the potential owners themselves).