From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 17:44:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C76F106566B for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 17:44:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD9C8FC21 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 17:44:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id o39Hil6U032918 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:44:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o39Hikbq098459 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:44:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id o39HikSs098456; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:44:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:44:45 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Garrett Cooper Message-ID: <20100409174445.GA4359@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20100407173334.GC76941@dan.emsphone.com> <8114C0B7-2288-457C-88D6-E5E3B0CC4E51@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:44:47 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: krad , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When will we can use ZFS v24? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:44:49 -0000 In the last episode (Apr 08), Garrett Cooper said: > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > On Apr 8, 2010, at 2:18 PM, krad wrote: > > [ ... ] > >>> is that even possible with CDDL? > >> > >> im not a lawyer but it wouldn't surprise me > > > > I'm not a lawyer either, but I was active in reviewing and suggesting > > changes to CDDL submission for OSI approval back in 2004. > > > > A copyright owner always has the ability to relicense their code under > > other terms, but existing code is guaranteed to be available, > > redistributable to others, etc under the terms of the current version of > > CDDL; in particular see: > > > > If Oracle chooses, they might make future changes to the ZFS source code > > under different or more restrictive licensing terms, but what's > > available now is always going to be available. > > The same of basic principle applies to BDB; originally it was BSD licensed > in 1.x under FreeBSD, then GPLed in 2.x+ (IIRC), then left to pasture in > 4.x after Oracle acquired Sleepycat DB. MySQL is GPLv2 today... who > knows what it might be tomorrow... BDB was never GPL'ed; it was and still is BSD-licensed. http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/htdocs/oslicense.html -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com