From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6175B1381F3 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:13:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28FCCE0C0E; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:13:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f42.google.com (mail-wg0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C893DE0AD4 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:13:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f42.google.com with SMTP id j13so4440574wgh.3 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 23:13:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=h25wsHO7JJ92HfxJhS+r+UOuQvSWpx2ty/ki3mTKhyg=; b=zGMbjpjCZJHqhrGBgQWT74R2MzrwYw0ANUrUYnUkRxNDhdMOEuJgvjehxxBSWxN0ut cdys9avEcQCUBNzr7Et1eYBYG03wjD7Vuo0QOrzLeM2s/5deS4Gl/qscX9NbqGdLvK2+ kU02gNVBF+KQKXFta7Z3l9UHYypQGaaVjM+mQbR74/HDTZzCMlclI0Y0G+cJv2KV9Xf8 GbINClF4L4L9x/jp1GzEfYojHMrPan8nlfX2MbTS3uBAvp+jQp01oG+Gy0wEE0ZodwL4 V0yljU2ZiKPeW5r7800tmFb7mfbp4fheynSGCyPQAivG6FJBH+0yrInxvM7Dz0Sqslp6 9cLw== X-Received: by 10.180.13.210 with SMTP id j18mr10016804wic.51.1377584014366; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 23:13:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-127-149.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.127.149]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id jf2sm23299005wic.2.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 26 Aug 2013 23:13:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <521C42BA.8020201@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:10:02 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130809 Thunderbird/17.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo References: <439435.46090.bm@smtp104.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <439435.46090.bm@smtp104.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1f8a3f84-b4dc-445b-9bbf-4201fa400241 X-Archives-Hash: e36ecb462023113d193a44edb0613bf2 On 27/08/2013 04:04, Thomas Mueller wrote: > On the issue of whether ZFS can be shipped with the Linux kernel, FreeBSD includes ZFS > with the kernel, binary and source. > > So does that mean it would be OK for Linux too? No. > FreeBSD has a different license (BSD) than Linux (GPL 2 or 3). Please read file COPYING in the kernel sources, the Linux kernel ships with license GPL-2 Not a later version at your choice (2.x) and certainly never GPL-3 The issue is that the Linux kernel devs consider the license terms for ZFS to be incompatible with GPL-2.0 and therefore ZFS cannot be redistributed as a Linux kernel module. There's nothing in the GPL-2 to stop you as a user from building and running ZFS on Linux, as GPL does not interfere with your right to run whatever you wish. The GPL only kicks in when code is redistributed. The BSD license has none of these conditions, in layman terms that license essentially says "you can take this code and pretty much do with it whatever you want, we don't care" > I am not a lawyer! > > Tom > > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com