Lots of nice deep system and file system comparison between various open source non-Linux operating systems. Good geekery all over. But part to pull starts at 27:00.
+Bryan Cantrill : "We need to end this self-inflicted madness of open source licensing compatibility. I think that it is a bogeyman, and we are letting it holds us back. You say it would be illegal to ship (a GPL-licensed Linux with BSD-licensed ZFS file system); I say no one has standing.
"The GPL was never ever designed to counteract other open-source licenses. That is a complete rewrite of history, to believe that GPL was designed to be at war with BSD or with CDDL. GPL was at war with proprietary software, and thanks to GPL and (Richard) Stallman, open source has won. Open source has won, and we are pissing on our own victory parade by not allowing these technologies to flat between systems."
Richard Stallman would disagree with some of the terms (he says Free not Open) but well worth considering and discussing.
+Bryan Cantrill : "We need to end this self-inflicted madness of open source licensing compatibility. I think that it is a bogeyman, and we are letting it holds us back. You say it would be illegal to ship (a GPL-licensed Linux with BSD-licensed ZFS file system); I say no one has standing.
"The GPL was never ever designed to counteract other open-source licenses. That is a complete rewrite of history, to believe that GPL was designed to be at war with BSD or with CDDL. GPL was at war with proprietary software, and thanks to GPL and (Richard) Stallman, open source has won. Open source has won, and we are pissing on our own victory parade by not allowing these technologies to flat between systems."
Richard Stallman would disagree with some of the terms (he says Free not Open) but well worth considering and discussing.
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