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> things like ZFS added That's a big gotcha - ZFS is non-free so of course it cannot be part of Debian proper. Hopefully we'll get feature parity via Btrfs or
by zozbot234 2y ago
> things like ZFS added
That's a big gotcha - ZFS is non-free so of course it cannot be part of Debian proper. Hopefully we'll get feature parity via Btrfs or Bcachefs at some point in the future.
- Lariscus 2y agoThats incorrect, it is free software but incompatible with the GPL.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> ZFS is non-free so of course it cannot be part of Debian proper ZFS is under the CDDL which is a perfectly good free and open-source software license, just some people view it as incompatible with GPL (IANAL, but this is apparently somewhat controversial; see the wikipedia page) so Debian doesn't distribute ZFS .ko files for Linux in binary form. They do, however, have an official package for it[1], just using DKMS to compile it locally. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribution_License https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distrib... [1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/zfs-dkms https://packages.debian.org/sid/zfs-dkms
- worthless-trash 2y agoIf some people see it as incompatible, its not perfectly good then, is it.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoCDDL is a good license. GPLv2 is a good license. They happen to be (maybe) incompatible. That doesn't make either of them bad. I mean, would you argue that GPLv2 is bad because it's not compatible with CDDL?
- worthless-trash 2y agoI think that you can include it in cddl, but not the other way around.