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> zfs is shunned. can't really get around that copyright issue Well except for Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux distros supporting it.

• ghaff 14d ago
  There's also not a lot of money in Canonical for someone (Oracle) to sue for. Red Hat (now IBM/Red Hat) and I guess even SUSE is a different equation. Red Hat just wouldn't touch ZFS because of licensing.
  • rdtsc 14d ago
    Nevertheless, Ubuntu is one the most popular linux distributions. So “can’t be done” is obviously not true since it has been done. One can say it is “dangerous” and they haven’t been sued “yet” but the deed is done already.
    • ghaff 13d ago
      So use Ubuntu. Why do you care if other distros consider it too risky given different business positions/models?
      • rdtsc 13d ago
        > So use Ubuntu. I am using Ubuntu! > Why do you care if other distros consider it too risky given different business positions/models? I don't know. Why do people comment on HN? :shrug:? It's fun and interesting to have a conversion? I was mainly responding to a GP post that said "zfs is shunned. can't really get around that copyright issue". It didn't have a subject in there. As in "I can't really get around" or "anyone can't get around". And I read it as the second version and pointed that at least one distro did get around it.