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Time for ZFS now!

Even better yet, a new OpenSolaris under GPL instead of CDDL.

The new OpenSolaris is called illumos.

And the CDDL is actually fine. Give it a try :)

I use OpenIndiana since its beginning, it's fine but IMHO not there for serious work. FreeBSD with ZFS is miles ahead.

And the CDDL is not fine, as it is not compatible with GPL, which makes it impossible to have it official in the Linux kernel.

That day better never come; If the last thing I dearly love, illumos (there is no OpenSolaris any more) ever gets relicensed under that fascist GPL, I’ll never write another line of code again. That would be the last straw.

I can understand why someone does not like GPL, but calling a license which says you have to pass on the same rights you were given a 'fascist' license makes absolutely zero sense.

The issue with the GPL is, that it does not only requires to pass on the source any (modified) GPL component, but also any other program part which happens to be linked together with the GPL code, but is in no way derived from it. This is pretty violent towards code not strictly related to the GPL code - whether the strong term used is appropriate, is another question.

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