2008-07-23 21:30:03
A recent thread on the lkml discussed a blog entry stating that minimal ZFS support for GRUB was available under the GPL license,"we could now use that code to implement support for ZFS in the Linux kernel." Alan Cox explained,"no we can't. The GPL ZFS bits don't include the various methods that would violate the patent so there is no grant. I've several times asked Sun to simply give permission and they don't even answer. I can only read the Sun motivation one way - they want to look open but know that ZFS is about the only thing that might save Solaris as a product in the data centre so are not truly prepared to let Linus use it." H. Peter Anvin added,"from what I can see, it is an absolutely-minimal read only implementation." 

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