Re: ZFS

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 5:17 AM, vincent <10.50%free.fr@localhost> wrote:
> Le 7 nov. 2009 à 18:20, Lubomir Sedlacik a écrit :
>
>> On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 02:01:37PM +0100, vincent wrote:
>>>
>>> Did you read that about ZFS ?
>>>
>>> http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/23/apple_shuts_down_zfs_open_source_project.html
>>
>> Yes, we also read this:
>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2009-October/033125.html
>
> Agreed. What I have retained is that there is some legal issue tied to some
> obscure and private patent war. Is there a possibility NetBSD port of ZFS be
> a "colateral" victim of this battle?
>

My guess is that if you were Wasabi Systems shipping NetBSD/ZFS-based
products, then you would be a probable target for a cease and desist
order pending a licensing agreement with NetApp (of course, that's
certainly not a specific problem anymore).  However, I think the worst
case for NetBSD would be a requirement to remove any sun-sourced,
infringing code.