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Not GPL compatible and patents from my understanding. Is there any way they can expect large scale deployments or linux integration?
by matt_heimer 13y ago
Not GPL compatible and patents from my understanding. Is there any way they can expect large scale deployments or linux integration?
- mahrens 13y agoZFS on Linux large scale deployments: 55 Petabytes at LLNL http://www.slideshare.net/MatthewAhrens/open-zfs-linuxcon http://www.slideshare.net/MatthewAhrens/open-zfs-linuxcon See slide 3; last slide has a little more detail. ZFS on illumos: Nexenta claims 1.5 Exabytes under management (across multiple deployments) http://billroth.ulitzer.com/node/2461630 http://billroth.ulitzer.com/node/2461630
- mook 13y agoFWIW, my understanding is that CDDL, as a MPL-derived license, had a patent licensing clause and therefore the patents don't matter as long as it's using that set of source code. So a clean room rewrite might run afoul of patents, but the existing CDDL licensed code is okay. (See CDDL, section 2.1(b), but keep in mind section 2.1(d) where modifications and deleted code are not covered.)