ZFS.

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Fri Nov 18 12:15:49 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 13:08 +0100, Stefan Held wrote:
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> AFAIK the CDDL is a BSD Style License. 

More MPL like.

> So where exactly do you come to
> the conclusion that Software written under this license can't be used
> in a GPL'ed environment?

(compiled) kernel modules are generally seen as a derived work of the
kernel, especially when integrated with the kernel. The GPL requires
derived works to be GPL licensed; not "compatible" like BSD, but GPL
licensed. The GPL also requires that when you ship 2 pieces of software
together that are highly interdependent as one whole (even when they're
not derived works), that the entire whole is GPL licensed.

Yes the GPL is quite viral....


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