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== Goals ==
== Goals ==
The goals of the OpenZFS Project are:
The goals of the OpenZFS project are:
* To raise awareness of the quality, utility, and availability of open-source implementations of ZFS.
* to raise awareness of the quality, utility, and availability of open source implementations of ZFS
* To encourage open communication about ongoing efforts to improve open-source ZFS.
* to encourage open communication about ongoing efforts to improve open source ZFS
* To ensure consistent reliability, functionality, and performance of all distributions of ZFS.
* to ensure consistent reliability, functionality, and performance of all distributions of ZFS.


== Website ==
== Website ==
This website is kindly hosted on hardware provided by, and software written by the nice folk at [http://www.hybridcluster.com/ HybridCluster], which is a ZFS-powered hosting platform which provides HA and auto-scaling with container-based live-migration for LAMP apps on FreeBSD.
This website is kindly hosted on hardware provided by, and software written by the nice folks at [http://www.hybridcluster.com/ HybridCluster], which is a ZFS-powered hosting platform that provides HA and auto-scaling with container-based live-migration for LAMP apps on FreeBSD.


== Legal Status ==
== Legal status ==
OpenZFS has many participants and is not the work of any single company.  We intend to create a Non-Profit Organization to hold the few assets of the OpenZFS Project, which include:
OpenZFS has many participants and is not the work of any single company.  We [[Talk:OpenZFS_project | intend to create]] a nonprofit organization (NPO) to hold the few assets of the OpenZFS project, which include:
* The OpenZFS logo.
* the OpenZFS logo
* The domain name open-zfs.org (and variants).
* the domain name open-zfs.org (and variants).
These assets are currently held by [[User:Mahrens | Matt Ahrens]].
These assets are currently held by [[User:Mahrens | Matt Ahrens]].


== Reuse of Logo ==
== Reuse of logo ==
The OpenZFS logo was created by [http://fffunction.co Fffunction].  See the [http://open-zfs.org/OpenZFS%20Guidelines.pdf OpenZFS brand guidelines] for more information about the logo.
The OpenZFS logo was created by [http://fffunction.co Fffunction].  See the [http://open-zfs.org/OpenZFS%20Guidelines.pdf OpenZFS brand guidelines] for more information about the logo.


The OpenZFS logo may be used in conjunction with products or projects which use OpenZFS.  If you have questions about use of the OpenZFS logo, please contact [[User:Mahrens | Matt Ahrens]].
The OpenZFS logo may be used in conjunction with products or projects that use OpenZFS.  If you have questions about use of the OpenZFS logo or wish to use it in any other way, please contact ''admin at open-zfs.org''.


== Website content ==
== Website content ==
{{OpenZFS:Copyrights}}


The contents of the open-zfs.org website are the copyright of various individuals and organisations, and are available to use under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike] license.
== ZFS source code copyrights and licensing ==
https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/tree/master/usr/src/uts/common/fs/zfs is copyright various contributors, and available under the [http://opensource.org/licenses/CDDL-1.0 CDDL] open-source license.


[[Copyrights]]
== Domain names ==
 
[http://open-zfs.org open-zfs.org] (this site) – please note the dash in the address.
 
openzfs.org (without a dash) is currently not associated with OpenZFS.

Revision as of 16:18, 15 April 2015

Goals

The goals of the OpenZFS project are:

  • to raise awareness of the quality, utility, and availability of open source implementations of ZFS
  • to encourage open communication about ongoing efforts to improve open source ZFS
  • to ensure consistent reliability, functionality, and performance of all distributions of ZFS.

Website

This website is kindly hosted on hardware provided by, and software written by the nice folks at HybridCluster, which is a ZFS-powered hosting platform that provides HA and auto-scaling with container-based live-migration for LAMP apps on FreeBSD.

Legal status

OpenZFS has many participants and is not the work of any single company. We intend to create a nonprofit organization (NPO) to hold the few assets of the OpenZFS project, which include:

  • the OpenZFS logo
  • the domain name open-zfs.org (and variants).

These assets are currently held by Matt Ahrens.

The OpenZFS logo was created by Fffunction. See the OpenZFS brand guidelines for more information about the logo.

The OpenZFS logo may be used in conjunction with products or projects that use OpenZFS. If you have questions about use of the OpenZFS logo or wish to use it in any other way, please contact admin at open-zfs.org.

Website content

Website content is copyright of various individuals and organizations, and is available to use under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

Apple®, Mac® and OS X® are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

Debian® is a registered trademark of Software in the Public Interest, Inc..

FreeBSD® is a registered trademark of the FreeBSD Foundation.

FreeNAS® is a registered trademark of iXsystems, Inc..

Joyent® is a registered trademark of Joyent, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.

Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.

Lustre® is a registered trademark of Xyratex Technology Ltd..

Microsoft® and Windows® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.

The OpenZFS logo is an asset of the OpenZFS Project.

Oracle® is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation.

PC-BSD® and the PC-BSD logo are registered trademarks of iXsystems, Inc..

PogoComplete™ is a trademark of … 

Raspberry Pi® is a registered trademark of The Raspberry Pi Foundation.

RackTop® is a registered trademark of RackTop, LLC.

Red Hat® and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® are are registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

SageCloud™ is a trademark of SageCloud, Inc..

SmartOS™ and SmartDataCenter™ are trademarks of Joyent, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.

Spectra® and the Spectra Logic logo are registered trademarks of Spectra Logic Corporation.

TrueOS™ is a trademark of iXsystems, Inc..

UNIX® is a registered trademark of The Open Group.

All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

ZFS source code copyrights and licensing

https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/tree/master/usr/src/uts/common/fs/zfs is copyright various contributors, and available under the CDDL open-source license.

Domain names

open-zfs.org (this site) – please note the dash in the address.

openzfs.org (without a dash) is currently not associated with OpenZFS.