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What is your computer's file system?
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(Score: 3, Informative) by DECbot on Friday February 10 2017, @10:58PM
No, ZFS forked after the source code was released in 2005, but was released under the CDDL, and later that year the FSF concluded that the CDDL was not legally compatible with the GPL--thus why it is not in the Linux kernel.
So the actual development of ZFS is very federated. You have the the BSDs and linux projects each porting from the Sun code while Oracle still controls the closed source code used in Solaris. OpenZFS is the umbrella project for ZFS that gives a common way to test compatibility between different ZFS ports. It was determined that versioning ZFS was impractical because of the distributed development did not support the use of common release numbers (and then you'd likely have to work with Oracle). So a flag system was implemented by which ZFS file systems can be shared between different ZFS ports if the receiving system supports the flags used by the sending system.
I guess Oracle could GPL their code, but then it would become a real license mess.
OpenZFS Wiki [wikipedia.org]
ZFS Wiki [wikipedia.org]
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Tuesday February 14 2017, @04:15AM
Le sigh.
Tried to mod up, modded down instead :P