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ZFS on Linux, and even Ubuntu distributing the binary form in their base OS, has been going on for years. I think you would be a huge event and very unlikely to
by unethical_ban 3y ago
ZFS on Linux, and even Ubuntu distributing the binary form in their base OS, has been going on for years. I think you would be a huge event and very unlikely to occur if Oracle tried to pull some licensing bullshit.
As someone ignorant to file system development, I would almost expect something more likely to be BTRFS getting sued for copying a feature of ZFS or something like that.
- jakobson14 3y agoThere's really no case to be made from the CDDL side. It's a weak per-file copyleft. If anyone (Oracle or Linus Torvalds) launches a ZFS-related lawsuit, it'll be as an author of GPLv2 kernel code. For the time being the solution has been to ship ZFS separate from the kernel, as any module with a non-GPL licence typically does. The biggest hurdle to ZFS isn't legal, but technical. The various teams working on ZFS has so far been able to keep up with kernel churn and symbols (eg FPU ones) being made GPL-only. That said, the kernel devs have made it clear that they don't care if you're open source or proprietary, they will make changes and mark new symbols GPL-only to fuck with you regardless.