When will we can use ZFS v24?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Apr 08), Garrett Cooper said:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
> > On Apr 8, 2010, at 2:18 PM, krad wrote:
> > [ ... ]
> >>> is that even possible with CDDL?
> >>
> >> im not a lawyer but it wouldn't surprise me
> >
> > I'm not a lawyer either, but I was active in reviewing and suggesting
> > changes to CDDL submission for OSI approval back in 2004.
> >
> > A copyright owner always has the ability to relicense their code under
> > other terms, but existing code is guaranteed to be available,
> > redistributable to others, etc under the terms of the current version of
> > CDDL; in particular see:
> >
> > If Oracle chooses, they might make future changes to the ZFS source code
> > under different or more restrictive licensing terms, but what's
> > available now is always going to be available.
> 
> The same of basic principle applies to BDB; originally it was BSD licensed
> in 1.x under FreeBSD, then GPLed in 2.x+ (IIRC), then left to pasture in
> 4.x after Oracle acquired Sleepycat DB.  MySQL is GPLv2 today...  who
> knows what it might be tomorrow...

BDB was never GPL'ed; it was and still is BSD-licensed.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/htdocs/oslicense.html

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	Dan Nelson
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