Another polemic around Ubuntu

[Michael Hall]

On 06/01/2016 10:59 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> Michael Hall:
>> The SFC's opinion is basically that combining these two free and open
>> source licensed projects (ZFS and Linux) together in Ubuntu is not
>> allowed.
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> The intention of Oracle publishing ZFS on a weak copyleft license is to
> be able to use proprietary code along with ZFS, while taking advantage
> of the kernel.
> 
> Their ultimately purpose is to build a business model where they can
> monopolize technology around ZFS, while taking advantage of the libre
> software community around the kernel. The aim of the GPL and Linus has
> always been to prevent that.
> 
> 
> 
> 

Oracle didn't choose the CDDL, Sun did, and the developers behind the
decision have been open about their intention, which was to create a
copy-left license that didn't force itself on code of other licenses the
way the GPL does. Sun did a lot of good things for free and open source
software, there's no reason to suspect their intentions here.

Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com