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OpenZFS is CDDL liscensed and GPL incompatable.
by throwaway2048 11y ago
OpenZFS is CDDL liscensed and GPL incompatable.
- ryao 11y agoOnly if you build it into the kernel binary image loaded by the bootloader. Otherwise, it is an independent module.
- jackbravo 11y agoHere is another post from the parent about this issue specificaly: - http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/02/zfs-licensing-and-linux.html http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/02/zfs-licensing-and-lin... "We at Canonical have conducted a legal review, including discussion with the industry's leading software freedom legal counsel, of the licenses that apply to the Linux kernel and to ZFS. And in doing so, we have concluded that we are acting within the rights granted and in compliance with their terms of both of those licenses."
- baldfat 11y ago> However, there is nothing in either license CDDL GPL that prevents distributing it in the form of a binary module or in the form of source code. http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatAboutTheLicensingIss http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatAboutTheLicensingIss
- mjg59 11y agoThis would be true if the resulting work were not a derivative work of the GPLed kernel. There's plenty of solid legal opinion that it is, and if you accept that then the GPL absolutely prevents distributing it in the form of a binary module.
- l1ambda 11y ago"And zfs.ko, as a self-contained file system module, is clearly not a derivative work of the Linux kernel but rather quite obviously a derivative work of OpenZFS and OpenSolaris. Equivalent exceptions have existed for many years, for various other stand alone, self-contained, non-GPL and even proprietary (hi, nvidia.ko) kernel modules."
- TimWolla 11y agoSorry, I downvoted you by accident, while focusing my browser window.