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Red Hat will never ship ZFS, because its an entity that exists in the US and a probable target for lawsuits / license violation if ZFS is included.
by silly-silly 9y ago
Red Hat will never ship ZFS, because its an entity that exists in the US and a probable target for lawsuits / license violation if ZFS is included.
- cookiecaper 9y agoWhat's the risk involved for Red Hat in shipping ZFS? OpenZFS and ZFS-on-Linux are under the CDDL, a legitimate open-source license that some feel may be GPL-incompatible. Red Hat distributes non-GPL programs as a matter of routine, and I'm sure this includes other CDDL programs, especially considering Red Hat's enthusiastic involvement in the Java ecosystem. The only potential risk is that the GPL is so virulently infectious that any driver is automatically GPL'd by virtue of its own existence as a compiled kernel module, but that possibility seems fairly remote, and it hasn't seemed to affect the distribution of other purportedly-non-GPL kernel modules. I'm not a lawyer so maybe I'm missing something.
- cryptonector 9y agoThe risk is FUDdy, but not entirely imaginary. In particular there's the thread of a threat of patent lawsuits from a variety of players in the industry. Of course, that's always the case in this industry, so I don't buy it. But RH might, and that's their call. My guess too is that if Canonical manages to go a few years without a lawsuit from kernel copyright holders then we might see more of what it is doing. But RH would -I guess!- still suffer from patent FUD and so stay away from ZFS. That's all fine by me. The better for RH's competition. More competition, mo' betta.