Fwd: Bug#651624: is zfs incompatible with the GNU Project ?

[Paolo Del Bene]

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From: Paolo Delbene <id3rfix at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 05:31:26 +0000
Subject: Re: Bug#651624: is zfs incompatible with the GNU Project ?
To: rms

mr. Edward Tomasz Napierała  told:
what do you think about richard ?

happy hacking paolo

2012/2/9, Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz at freebsd.org>:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 09:09:24PM +0100, Paolo Delbene wrote:
>>  Paolo Delbene
>> <id3rfix at gmail.com> 	07 febbraio 2012 02:47
>> A: debian-bsd <debian-bsd at lists.debian.org>

> FreeBSD license _is_ a BSD license.  It's just there are three kinds
> of BSD license, and some of FreeBSD code is four-clause.

> Yes, it's a known problem with GPL, which seems to have been deliberately
> made incompatible with licenses that are not subset of it.  Still, it's
> not a problem, since there is hardly any useful code licensed under GPL
> in the FreeBSD kernel.  There were three sound card drivers, but they
> were cleaned from GPL in 10-CURRENT.

> Simply because ZFS works.

> For AdvFS to be useful, it would have to be ported to FreeBSD first.
> Also, this would make FreeBSD the sole consumer of this code (ZFS
> is being used in other systems, e.g. Illumos).  This would also mean
> adding GPL-ed code to FreeBSD, which is not really desired.

> Also, AdvFS and LVM are nowhere of being functionally equivalent to ZFS.