[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Matthew R. Wilson]

On 2024-05-12, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 May 2024 01:50:42 +0100, chrisq wrote:
>
>> On 5/9/24 22:56, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 7 May 2024 13:45:25 +0100, chrisq wrote:
>>> 
>>> And yet, Oracle won’t offer it, preferring to give their customers
>>> btrfs instead.
>> 
>> Still very much in Solaris, but suspect conflicting licensing issues,
>> Linux and ZFS, being the main reason it's not offered.
>
> Yes, but Oracle *owns* the licence to ZFS. So they can offer it on 
> whatever terms they like.

Oracle doesn't own any of the work that the OpenZFS community has done
to port ZFS to Linux, though. All of that work is also licensed under
the CDDL. So Oracle can't wave their magic wand and re-license the
entire project; they can only relicense whatever subset of code in
OpenZFS actually originated and remains unaltered from OpenSolaris.
OpenZFS, the only version of ZFS that runs on Linux, would remain
incompatible with the GPL.

Now... if Oracle truly were inclined to re-license their ZFS code under,
say, the GPL, I'm sure the OpenZFS community would be very interested in
getting their major contributors to also agree to re-license their code.

But Oracle doing that brings to mind something about pigs flying...

-Matthew