| > When Sun released ZFS as open source, they made a deliberate decision to use a license that prevented it from being integrated into the Linux kernel This is simply totally false no matter how many times people repeat it. It pure FUD. Sun picked the licence because they had to allow linking with closed code for their products, going with the GPL was simply not viable given the situation with drivers on their platforms. Their licence is actually build on the Mozilla licence without forcing resolution in California. Sun actually spend quite a bit of time and resources to develop a really good licence and made it as open they could given their constraints. Also, Sun very agressivily pushed their technologies to other systems and Linux would have been no exeption. Sun helped Apple integrate D-Trace, and at the same time the hedge an evil plan to not give it to Linux? They helped upstream things to the BSDs as well. That simply conspiricy nonsense that was typical with the 'its actually GNU/Linux' crowd that was pushed in the 2000s. Sun was seen as evil coorprate trying to stamp on the 'real open source' community, looking back on this now, the absurdity of that sentement should be clear. Sun made mistakes, but their overall track record was staller. The idea that the function of the GPL is to block other Open Source code from integrating into an Open Source project is an abolute insane concept and a total perversion of the Idea of Open Source. Literally using the supposed 'most free' GPL to activly block and exclude other Open Source code from people. |
If you have reason to believe that Linux developers can go ahead and simply integrate ZFS into Linux without worrying about the license, I'm sure lawyers from the FSF, IBM, Cannonical, etc would love to hear your explanation.