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jeffdavis on March 29, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: ZFS on Linux 0.6.1 released: Ready for wide scale ...

Why is Oracle investing in Btrfs (GPL), rather than dual-licensing zfs as cddl/GPL?

ianlevesque on March 29, 2013 [–]

They started it before they acquired Sun.

jeffdavis on March 30, 2013 | [–]

Well, that kind of makes sense in a "we're incredibly lazy" way. But why not license ZFS as GPL, and see if that project makes better headway?

No real cost there, except some possible confusion. Move the developers to whichever project seems to be winning.

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