Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

[Antonio Olivares]

> > > > ZFS was included in FreeBSD 7.0 because the
> BSD
> > > license is more free than the GPL with that
> regard.
> > > 
> > > And if NetApp win against Sun they can sue
> FreeBSD now, for
> > > triple
> > > damages which would be millions and the end of
> FreeBSD.
> > 
> > That is a big IF, maybe it should be an iff (IF and
> ONLY IF) like in Mathematics.  :)
> 
> A big if but rather a nasty consequence, and unlike FreeBSD
> the Linux
> companies have enough money that people do try lawsuits.
> 
> > They(FreeBSD) should be protected, the users can get
> the ports from source, they do not ship binaries(except the
> installation *.tbz files).  
> 
> That makes no difference to US patent law.

# fsck US Patent law
fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)


Sun Microsystems encouraged the ZFS port to FreeBSD, and yes they placed the patents in place, now if they encouraged the port to FreeBSD(since BSDs* are more relaxed than GPL), they should protect FreeBSD.  If not, like you say (FreeBSD should get rid of it and protect themselves much like Fedora protects itself from these cr*ppy patents and lawuits :)

Regards,

Antonio