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viewtopic.php?p=1278#p1278hbp112358 wrote:If this is a community Edition why not release it under BSD license or another restricted for profit license and allow the kernel hackers out in the world to help them develop their product? just because it's the more advanced of the 2 functional zfs clients for OSX in pool revision does not restrict the communities willingness to assist a company into fruition.
My personal belief on why tenscomplement died was their unwillingness to work with the community as a whole to see their project through. there is allot of talent willing to donate a tremendous amount of time and energy into this however having the code for both the GUI and the backend locked away with 5 to 20 folks reviewing it and updating it is not anywhere as fast or efficient as releasing it as a community project and allowing input.
just my 2 cents worth been doing this a while now, Beta'd this project when it was under Ten.
HBP
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viewtopic.php?p=1277#p1277hbp112358 wrote:If this is a community Edition why not release it under BSD license and allow the kernel hackers out in the world to help them develop their product? just because it's the more advanced of the 2 functional zfs clients for OSX in pool revision does not restrict the communities willingness to assist a company into fruition.
My personal belief on why tenscomplement died was their unwillingness to work with the community as a whole to see their project through. there is allot of talent willing to donate a tremendous amount of time and energy into this however having the code for both the GUI and the backend locked away with 5 to 20 folks reviewing it and updating it is not anywhere as fast or efficient as releasing it as a community project and allowing input.
just my 2 cents worth been doing this a while now, Beta'd this project when it was under Ten, have done alpha and beta testing for many other projects, including drivers for the nvidia on the osx (non Mac) intels.
HBP
I'd like to see more of ZEVO open source in due course.
Would BSD licensing be compatible with CDDL? (I have no idea.)
I reckon the transfer to GreenBytes was more about enabling improvements to ZEVO and ZFS, than about the death of a company.
Whilst our
contributions to the beta forum are no longer available to us, I don't mourn the loss. I privately bookmarked and sometimes cached my content but now:
- it's nice to have a relatively clean sheet
- I sense that community content here is far greater than we had during the beta.
(And UserVoice (for the beta) was ghastly!)
The Ten's Complement page draws attention to the open source ZFS community over at
MacZFS that is looking for developers (kernel and file system).
The big pictures probably include a wish to
make technical debt explicit before going open, and so on …