Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:17:37 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. Message-ID: <20070407141736.GC4058@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <46177881.3090509@wcborstel.com> References: <20070406025700.GB98545@garage.freebsd.pl> <Pine.SOL.4.64.0704052156560.26995@marrakesh> <46177881.3090509@wcborstel.com>
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On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 12:54:57PM +0200, Jorn Argelo wrote.. > Rich Teer wrote: > >>I'm happy to inform that the ZFS file system is now part of the FreeBSD > >>operating system. ZFS is available in the HEAD branch and will be > >>available in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE as an experimental feature. > >> > > > >This is fantastic news! At the risk of raking over ye olde arguments, > >as the old saying goes: "Dual licensing? We don't need no stinkeen > >dual licensing!". :-) > > > > > First of all, thanks a lot for all the hard work of both the FreeBSD > developers as the ZFS developers. I can't wait to give it a go. > > That leads me to one question though: Why is *BSD able to bring it into > the OS as where Linux has licensing problems with the CDDL? AFAIK Linux > users can only run it in userland mode and not in kernel mode because of > the licenses. My guess(!) is that they do not want non-GPL-ed code in the standard kernel. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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