On 11/22/24 11:32, Ron / BCLUG via talk wrote:
There are no nightmarish license problems with ZFS. There's an issue where the license isn't GPLv2 compatible, but they're quite similar in spirit.
As a user, it has no impact on me and works great.
Sun SPL has been approved by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as a free software license, and by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) as an open source license. The older CDDL was written to be as compatible as possible, but include additional protections. We wanted that, to avoid lawsuits against Sun. I think we got sued over QFS.
Most dev work for ZFS is now done on Linux as I understand it - no longer a second-class citizen on our favourite platform.
Indeed! Fred Weigel led a team supporting ZFS on BSD as well. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain