[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Fwd: Software Freedom Law Center: The Linux Kernel, CDDL and Related Issues

[Turbo Fredriksson]

[sorry, messed up the To]

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> From: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo at bayour.com>
> Subject: Re: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Software Freedom Law Center: The Linux Kernel, CDDL and Related Issues
> Date: March 1, 2016 1:37:28 PM GMT
> To: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>
> 
> On Mar 1, 2016, at 1:26 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
>> They seem to agree with the interpretation underlying the zfs inclusion
>> in Ubuntun.
> 
> 
> I haven't finished reading the whole thing, but the
> comment from Linus was circled around at the beginning
> and this phrase stuck:
> 
> • anything that has knowledge of and plays with fundamental internal Linux behaviour is clearly a derived work. If you need to muck around with core code, you're derived, no question about it.
> 
> But he doesn't know exactly himself (next section):
> 
> […] Is that derived just because it [the AFS module] got ported to Linux that had a reasonably similar VFS interface to what other UNIXes did? Personally, I didn't feel that I could make that judgment call. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but it clearly is a gray area.
> 
> If I'm not mistaken (haven't looked in quite a while),
> there IS no (full) implementation of the Andrew FileSystem
> in the kernel. The one that's there, is a read-only implementation,
> that was written from scratch…
> 
> So if IBM (?) didn't think it was a clear case, then…
> 
> 
> We couldn't risk it, and it's _VERY_ likely (?) that Oracle
> will hit anyone doing this and if this holds up in court,
> we'll know in ten, fifteen years or so :D

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