linux-kernel - Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

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Message-ID: <20070417165953.1395692e@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:59:53 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczek@...y.mif.pg.gda.pl>
Cc:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	"David R. Litwin" <presently42@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

> Why on discussion about switching to GPL v3 Linux code this argument was 
> allways taken as "piece of cake". Why in case switching to another license 

What planet do you come from I wonder ?

On Earth (where most of us usually reside) the consensus of the kernel
developers and the legal people they talked to was that GPLv2 to GPLv3
would be very very hard to do if not impossible for the kernel.

Alan
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