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by cthalupa
3253 days ago
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I've read it. That doesn't mean that all of the files are licensed with the any-or-later clause. I believe it was in the same talk that Cantrill likened Ellison to a lawnmower, but an ex-Sun employee talked about how the tangled legal web of who owned what part of Solaris precluded them from being able to release it under the GPL, and thus the CDDL was born. My understanding is that, if any of these bits that they do not own themselves and have restrictions on how they can license them, were licensed in such a way that they could be switched to the GPL or a GPL-compatible license, then Sun and now Oracle would probably be out of compliance with the terms they are bound by. My educated guess is that the files that have opted out of the update mechanism are the files that are in this situation. It's also unlikely that Oracle would be the ones to sue Canonical - the CDDL license doesn't include any provisions that would give them the ability to sue. I'm sure they have copyrights on some parts of the Linux kernel, which they could potentially use to sue if they truly believe that they could win a case in court to show that OpenZFS is a derivative work of the kernel. |
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You're right, only 96% of the files and 99.5% of the code are.
> My educated guess is that the files that have opted out of the update mechanism are the files that are in this situation.
The files that have opted out contain very little in the way of interesting code, so I don't believe this to be true.