Lawsuit over ZFS - any impact for FreeBSD?

[Doug Barton]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Justin Smith wrote:

> FYI:
>
> Network Appliance suing Sun over ZFS
>
> http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/09/netapp-sues-sun.html

Please note, I am not a lawyer, and if your business depends on ZFS you 
should contact a competent attorney if you have legal concerns.

Both sides are suing each other, and the _likely_ outcome will be that 
they come to some sort of agreement, which will probably involve 
licensing, and some money changing hands.

The URL below has a pretty good analysis of both the current, and the 
ongoing legal issues around ZFS and WAFL.

hth,

Doug


http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2179693,00.asp

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