Re: ZFS

[Adam Hamsik <haaaad%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Nov,Sunday 8 2009, at 5:51 PM, vincent wrote:

> Le 8 nov. 2009 à 14:35, Rhialto a écrit :
>
> > On Sun 08 Nov 2009 at 08:29:14 -0500, matthew sporleder wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Given this:
> > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2009-October/033134.html
> > it sounds like there is no such thing. Besides, software patents  
> > are not
> > allowed anyway.
>
> Well, in Europe may be not, but in the US, read the history of BSD,  
> and the birth of BSDLite. GIF also is a good example.
>
> 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?

We want to change as least code as possible in ZFS. Because it makes  
later updates much easier for us.

Regards

Adam.