zfs cddl & gpl

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Nov 17 01:27:47 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 19:11 -0600, Justin Conover wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/16/05, Markku Kolkka <markkuk at tuubi.net> wrote:
>         Justin Conover kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 17.
>         marraskuuta 2005 02:47):
>         > As far as RedHat is concerend, is the CDDL and GPL not
>         > compatible?
>         
>         CDDL isn't GPL-compatible. See:
>         http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
> 
> The list contains MPL/PHP/Apache yet those are included in Fedora so
> I'm still curious, I don't know a lot about all the license so that is
> why I'm asking.

You can't mix code with CDDL and GPL licenses. So, because the Linux
kernel is GPL and the ClosedSolaris bits are CDDL, they will never be
merged and form Voltron.

The same would be true for any kernel code licensed MPL/PHP/Apache. Not
that I know of anyone who has done that, because it would make it
intentionally incompatible. :)

~spot
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