Craig White wrote:
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.
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I certainly hope so Ollie
you can run ZFS AND not have to deal with messy GPL kernel...it's called
Open Solaris
Which can't use device drivers that have GPL restrictions - the viral
nature of the GPL has hijacked much of the work that would otherwise be
available for any use.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
