On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 18:01 +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > How is it that the BSD licence model can cope with the Sun CDDL licence?
>
> Because the GPL forbids additional restrictions over and above
> those listed in the GPL. BSD, however, basically says "do whatever you
> want with this" -- which means that it's pretty much compatible with
> any license at all (i.e. BSD-licensed material may be distributed as
> source or binary as a part of a larger or derived work licensed under
> any other license).
Ah right, the 'source or binary' was the missing piece for me, ZFS,
therefore, can be packaged with any complete BSD based operating system
distribution in binary form without potential licence conflicts. So is
it true that, say, FreeBSD, I have never tried it and probably won't in
the near future, contains many binary only packages supplied by various
vendors like Sun?
Damian
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Damian Brasher
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