Re: ZFS

[vincent <10.50%free.fr@localhost>]

Le 8 nov. 2009 à 18:33, Ty Sarna a écrit :

> > Okay, it can be no more than a voyage back in time to the  
> > aforementioned episode – so, is there any estimation as to the  
> > percentage of Sun code in today's NetBSD ZFS port?
>
> What does that have to do with anything? It could be 100% NetBSD  
> code and that wouldn't change anything as far as patents.

I am not sure about this. I think you can't patent a concept, but you  
could patent an implementation. For example, in the electronics field,  
you maybe can patent a type of high-quality oscillator, but you cannot  
claim any property on a different implementation achieving the same  
goal. If you can code from scratch a FS with the same functionalities  
as ZFS, I don't figure out how you could be liable to patent suing.

Vincent