[kwlug-disc] FSF Issues Fresh Statement Over ZFS On Linux With GPL Enforcement

[Bob Jonkman]

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It's probably worthwhile to read the original article by Bradley Kuhn
of the Software Freedom Conservancy:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/

I understood from this that if ZFS was bundled as source code,
requiring compilation by the end-user, then the distribution would be
compatible with GPL. The problem comes from having it included as a
binary kernel module.

Oracle doesn't understand Free Software. It's unlikely we'll see a
resolution to this, unless someone creates a new, compatible file
system without using any of the CDDL licensed source code.

- --Bob.


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On 2016-04-12 10:37 AM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> Apparently there's still some licensing issues with Oracle over
> ZFS, yet we expect to see ZFS in Ubuntu 16.04 this month...
> 
> http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FSF-April-ZFS-Linux
> 
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