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by justaguy88 1828 days ago
Whats Oracle's play here, do they somehow make money out of ZFS which makes them reluctant to re-license it?
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sneak 1828 days ago
Is there a CLA for OpenZFS/ZoL? I don't believe there is, so I don't think Oracle can unilaterally relicense it.
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rincebrain 1828 days ago
Even if there were a CLA for OpenZFS, it wouldn't affect Oracle's inability to relicense the whole thing.

They could relicense their codebase, of course, but the number of changes that have happened since they diverged is not small.

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jen20 1828 days ago
A CLA and copyright assignment was how Oracle were able to make (now Oracle) ZFS proprietary again in the first place. As you say though, OpenZFS and Oracle ZFS have diverged quite a bit, and most of the world is now based around the OpenZFS variant that acts as the upstream for Linux, FreeBSD and even Windows variants.
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