[Info-vax] New filesystem mentioned

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/13/2019 7:12 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 5/13/19 3:32 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> I don't know the legal status of the ZFS file system, but if it is 
>> covered by that license that (as I understand it) demands that 
>> anything that includes the software must also be free.
> 
> I've not read the license in a long time.  But I thought that it was 
> possible to use the open source code in something without requiring that 
> all of that system subsequently be made open source.  Meaning I thought 
> you could use the open source code, keeping /that/ code open, in the 
> rest of the code that is closed source.
> 
> Any modifications to the open source code will likely need to be open as 
> well.
> 
> But that's significantly different than requiring that the rest of the 
> system be open sourced.

ZFS is CDDL licensed.

CDDL is weak copy left and does work with proprietary licensed stuff.

There has been some discussion about Linux and ZFS as GPL and CDDL have
some "issues", but that is more on the GPL side than on the CDDL side.

But I believe VSI could use it for VMS.

Arne