Linus on GPLv3 and ZFS

[Kernel] Posted Jun 12, 2007 17:12 UTC (Tue) by corbet

For the curious, here's a recent posting from Linus Torvalds on Sun's motivations and GPLv3. "So to Sun, a GPLv3-only release would actually let them look good, and still keep Linux from taking their interesting parts, and would allow them to take at least parts of Linux without giving anything back (ahh, the joys of license fragmentation). Of course, they know that. And yes, maybe ZFS is worthwhile enough that I'm willing to go to the effort of trying to relicense the kernel. But quite frankly, I can almost guarantee that Sun won't release ZFS under the GPLv3 even if they release other parts. Because if they did, they'd lose the patent protection."

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