"Ploski, Karen L" <Karen.Ploski@UNISYS.com> writes:
> Now that OCFS2 is part of the kernel, the licensing issue would seem to
> have been put to rest.
Exactly how do you think that changes its GPL status?
> Does the fact that OCFS2 is now part of the
> kernel help reduce the size of the work effort required to have a look
> at the possibility of PostgreSQL using OCFS2? Is shared memory still
> the real issue? Any thoughts?
No, a cluster file system doesn't change a thing for us, even if we were
willing to build in a fundamental dependency on a Linux-only, GPL-only
component.
regards, tom lane