| >It is probably more accurate to claim the GPL was designed to be incompatible with an entire class of licenses that includes the CDDL, It was designed to give and preserve rights for end users, it's not really a big mystery, and the actual rights which are given and preserved perfectly mirror that. I don't see anything that would substantiate your claim of them being 'deliberately' incompatible with any other licenses (anything you can point to ?), in fact they've fixed incompability problems in GPLv3 with other licenses. And of course both MPL and CDDL came along much later than GPLv2, with which they were incompatible (MPL 2.0 in turn rectified this). >can be simplified to one guy thinking GPL incompatibility is a good feature. No, I don't think for a second that it was 'one guy', again Sun management had absolutely zero reason to allow Linux to incorporate ZFS and DTrace and every business reason not to, in fact from a business standpoint it would have been crazy to hand over ZFS and DTrace to their main competitor. >but that does not stop people from distributing it as a kernel module and that is how filesystem code is loaded these days, so it is a non-issue. I'm not at all sure it's a non-issue, this is a Linux kernel module running in Linux kernel space, I'm pretty sure there is a strong case for this being considered a derivative, that said I hope it won't be an issue since having ZFS in a native capacity with minimal effort is a boon for Linux. |