From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 7 14:30:06 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F28516A46B; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 14:30:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr17.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr17.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.37]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDF5913C455; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 14:30:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (obsolete.xs4all.nl [82.95.250.254]) by smtp-vbr17.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l37EIJ89092558; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:18:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l37EHbZH004153; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:17:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.6/Submit) id l37EHboX004152; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:17:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb) Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:17:37 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Jorn Argelo Message-ID: <20070407141736.GC4058@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20070406025700.GB98545@garage.freebsd.pl> <46177881.3090509@wcborstel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46177881.3090509@wcborstel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:30:06 -0000 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