Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:44:45 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Cc: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When will we can use ZFS v24? Message-ID: <20100409174445.GA4359@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <h2p7d6fde3d1004082234xb0d62c47qe46cdbb60588ec4e@mail.gmail.com> References: <r2t11167f521004062058p803f184bs792e94a90b761092@mail.gmail.com> <k2u78fb9d961004062135r67e18238zd16f825dda71dad5@mail.gmail.com> <k2pb269bc571004062138jde60bb10x84da21f328e5a475@mail.gmail.com> <j2yd36406631004070900sdd084342kb53331349f3e5c74@mail.gmail.com> <20100407173334.GC76941@dan.emsphone.com> <v2zd36406631004080146u15e93a92q4029aaf7c3b3af7c@mail.gmail.com> <o2x11167f521004080947m74fbd9a9yeef13586fa3774c6@mail.gmail.com> <t2qd36406631004081418s93187371n5ec4616735b38099@mail.gmail.com> <8114C0B7-2288-457C-88D6-E5E3B0CC4E51@mac.com> <h2p7d6fde3d1004082234xb0d62c47qe46cdbb60588ec4e@mail.gmail.com>
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In the last episode (Apr 08), Garrett Cooper said: > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> 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
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