Joerg Schilling wrote: > Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Joerg Schilling >> <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: >> > > >> > If you combine ZFS and Linux, you create a permitted "collective work" and the GPL cannot extend it's rules to the CDDLd separate and independend >> > work ZFS of course. >> >> Which countries' copyright laws would permit that explicitly even when some of the components' licenses prohibit it? > > Fortunately, Europe and the USA declare the same parts of the GPL void, these parts would prevent such a combination. <snip> First, I was not aware that the US had declared any part of the GPL null and void. Second, just to play Eris... which *version* of the GPL are you talking about in this arguement, 1.x, 2.x, or 3.x? mark