zfs cddl & gpl

[Justin Conover]

On 11/16/05, Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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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Thank you for the explanation. That must be why the NexentOS is having some
difficulties going live again. :)
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