On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 00:20 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > > > This more or less replicates Les' contentiousness towards GNU and GPL > > license stuff because he is desperately interested in running > > proprietary software without hassle and blames kernel developers, GPL > > license and Red Hat / Fedora packages for the problems which come from > > vendors who want to only provide binary software. > > That's a tiny subset of the real problem of the GPL. Consider that it > also prevents you from having zfs in the Linux kernel, zfs being neither > proprietary nor distributed only in binary. And that's just the obvious > thing you might know about and want today. The number of possible > combinations of things it prevents from being distributed are actually > astronomical. ---- I certainly hope so Ollie you can run ZFS AND not have to deal with messy GPL kernel...it's called Open Solaris Craig
