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>From my understanding both Linus and ZoL team prefer to be separate. I sincerely doubt that. If Oracle would relicense/dual license ZFS as GPLv2 compatible th
by BurningCycles 8y ago
>From my understanding both Linus and ZoL team prefer to be separate.
I sincerely doubt that. If Oracle would relicense/dual license ZFS as GPLv2 compatible then I feel convinced that the ZoL contributors would happily do so as well.
I can't think of a single reason why they would not want to be in mainline Linux, and I have seen nothing indicating that the Linux kernel devs would be anything but happy to have it 'mainlined' as it would only make Linux better.
Of course this all hinges on Oracle, which makes it extremely unlikely in my opinion.
- p_l 8y agoI can only base this on discussions with ZoL maintainers. From my personal look, there could be significant mess due to attempts to "remove duplication" or similar moves to make the code more linux-like. While ZFS is not the rampant layering violation some people accused it of, there's significant amount of code there (and funnily enough, there's actually overlap with some less-known linux features)