[Jarl Gullberg] > Is this something that could be explored? As far as I know, the license picked by SUN Microsystems for the ZFS implementation in Solaris, which was explicitly phrased to be incompatible with the Linux kernel license and prohibits distribution of combined works, if I remember correctly, is the blocker for this. It is thus a legal risk involved in distributing prebuilt binary packages. I am aware that Ubuntu have choosen to accept this risk and distribute prebuilt binary packages anyway. I guess they feel their stock of lawyers make this an acceptable risk. It is not obvious that Debian have the required surplus of cash to take a similar risk.
Note, I would love to be able to set up Debian with zfs on the root file system with packages directly from the Debian archive, but have no idea how to make it happen with the current legal constraints. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
