[Discuss] ZFS

matt at ciranttechnologies.com matt at ciranttechnologies.com
Tue Sep 27 23:51:24 EDT 2011


> No matter who you are, no matter what open source license you release
> something under, if you are the copyright holder, you have the right to
> re-release your code under any new license you want, and you have the
> right

Yes, re-release under a new license, but that doesn't invalidate the
previous code/license.  Anything forward released would be under that new
license.

> Sorry, that's incorrect.  If somebody patents something, and later
> somebody
> else releases an open-source thing which violates that patent, then the
> patent holder has grounds for legal action, against the producers,

Yeah, against commercial vendors, not end users.


> Well, that's not actually allowed.  Sol11Exp is only free for development
> purposes, and some other purposes as outlined in its EULA.  Not permitted
> to
> be put into a production fileserver/storage server for free.  The last
> such
> release was solaris 10u8, or genunix opensolaris b134, or the
> openindiana/illumos fork which is based on the above.
>
>

I'm not sure where I stated I used this in a production environment. 
That's what OpenStorage is for.




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