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hhw on Sept 18, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenZFS launch

GPL is hardly a neutral license. If anything, it's as extreme copyleft as there is. CDDL is actually quite neutral, and the compatibility issues between the two has more to do with the GPL, which is incompatible with pretty much all other licenses other than BSD/Apache/MIT/X11 style minimal licenses. Hence why ZFS can be safely adopted by FreeBSD and MacOSX.

protomyth on Sept 18, 2013 | [–]

I guess I should have wrote that better as I believe btrfs is NOT under a neutral license and thus the reason the ZFS crowd won't migrate or help.

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