Re: [PATCH] zfs module update

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 14.04.2015 06:34, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> В Tue, 14 Apr 2015 02:17:43 +0300
> Toomas Soome <address@hidden> пишет:
> 
>> hi!
>>
>> this is the major update to grub2 zfs module; the work is based on Oracle 
>> code drops from Solaris 11, and Illumos.
> 
> IANAL but I suspect such changes require at least submission from
> someone with Oracle E-Mail
> 
> + *  Copyright (c) 2010, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights 
> reserved
> 
Normally true but for ZFS, it's a little bit special: the ZFS code is
based on the code that sun/Oracle publishes as GPLv2+ or GPLv3+. As long
as the code is officially published on Oracle or Sun website, is under
GPLv2+ or GPLv3+ and touches only ZFS files, it's fine from legal
standpoint to incorporate it.