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The CDDL is incompatible with the GPL license. The GPL however is not incompatible with the CDDL. This means Linux copyright owners could sue ZoL binary distri
by georgyo 10y ago
The CDDL is incompatible with the GPL license. The GPL however is not incompatible with the CDDL.
This means Linux copyright owners could sue ZoL binary distributers, but Oracle could not.
However no one is shipping ZoL binaries, only the source code. The code itself is 100% conflict free.
- aidenn0 10y agoCanonical ships ZoL binaries as of April 2016. They claim doing so doesn't violate the GPL since they are shipping it as a module rather than built into the kernel.
- mistat 10y agoSo you're saying it's only going to be available in user space and never in the kernel? Why don't oracle just relicense it?
- _joel 10y agoNo, they're supplied as kernel modules, packaged separately from the kernel. Before Ubuntu 15.10 you could still install it as a DKMS module (such that it compiled on the system it's being installed on). Now they just ship the pre-built .ko's, saving the user compilation time. There are still userland tools to interact with it zpool, zfs etc.