Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 19:30:05 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> > > The licensing conflict means that would not be possible. You have the
> > > install the kernel source and then merge in the ZFS source yourself,
> > > it can't be done for you and distributed.
> >
> > Why do you believe this?
> >
> > ZFS id doubtlessly an own "work" independent from the rest of the Linux
> > kernel and for this reason, adding ZFS just creates a collective work
> > that is not affected by the GPL.
>
> But the CCDL licence of ZFS precludes its being distributed with the
> kernel. At least, that's how I understand it and the fact that no distro
> distributes a ZFS-enabled kernel makes me believe it is true.
Did you ever read the CDDL?
People who believe that there is a problem use a wrong interpretation of the
GPL. The CDDL definitely does not prevent combinations with other software.
Jörg
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