Lawsuit over ZFS - any impact for FreeBSD?

[Constantine A. Murenin]

On 15/09/2007, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, cross-licensing is what this is likely all about.

Richard Stallman's "The Dangers of Software Patents" speech comes to mind:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6390784544771380326&q=cuug

C.