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Why is Oracle investing in Btrfs (GPL), rather than dual-licensing zfs as cddl/GPL?
by jeffdavis 14y ago
Why is Oracle investing in Btrfs (GPL), rather than dual-licensing zfs as cddl/GPL?
- ianlevesque 14y agoThey started it before they acquired Sun.
- jeffdavis 14y agoWell, that kind of makes sense in a "we're incredibly lazy" way. But why not license ZFS as GPL, and see if that project makes better headway? No real cost there, except some possible confusion. Move the developers to whichever project seems to be winning.