I am still wondering how a company can take opensource products and build a 
commercial closed source around it. Hence the ZFS code. 

Kind regards, 

The out-side

Op 10 okt. 2012 om 21:46 heeft Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> 
het volgende geschreven:

> On 10/10/12 11:48 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
>> Alas, like many discussions about legalities (even those with
>> lawyers and accountants and such), there are no concrete good
>> answers like "do this" or "don't do that" (except the fighting
>> club rule #1 - don't talk about it).
> 
> Unfortunately, law is not well engineered - it's not a stable code base that 
> is
> compiled to a form which always does the same thing with 
> predictable/guaranteed
> results if you provide conforming input, but always evolving, highly 
> localized,
> and vastly subject to different results depending on the interpreter.   What
> seems obvious to one lawyer may be completely opposite of what a judge or jury
> rules when a case goes to trial.
> 
> -- 
>    -Alan Coopersmith-              [email protected]
>     Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
> 
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