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Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

From: bofh (goodb0fhgmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2007 - 13:09:19 CST


On 1/11/07, Stuart Henderson <stuspacehopper.org> wrote:
> On 2007/01/10 20:45, bofh wrote:
> > However, it won't be easy porting it. It's been out in opensolaris
> > for over a year+, but only showed up in solaris 10 6/06. However the
> > linux folks have to do it through fuse
>
> that's because it's not compatible with their license (use it and you
> can't make a patent claim against Sun - similar to the terms in the
> VRRP patent licensing). I'd be surprised if a complete reimplementation
> of it didn't tread on some Sun patents.

Hmm, there's been recent noise about opensolaris being licensed under
gpl v3. I'm curious if gpl v3 is "compatible" with the bsd license?