On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 6:57 PM Germano Massullo
<germano.massu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> After having dealt for the n-th time with libvirt dependencies messing
> up [1] with zfs packages installed from ZFS On Linux repository, I
> wondered if we could just include them in Fedora repository.
> They are not in the Fedora Forbidden Items [2] list.
> Fedora Wiki ZFS page [3] says:
> "Fedora releases don't ship proper ZFS support included to kernel
> because its license CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License)[...]"
> but since ZFS On Linux provide zfs-dkms package, I think this should
> avoid any possible legal trouble between Linux kernel licence and ZFS
> licence.
>
> What do you think about?
>

Fedora does not permit out of tree Linux kernel modules in its repositories:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packaged/#_no_external_kernel_modules

The zfs-fuse package is a pure-userspace implementation using FUSE,
which is why it's shipped in Fedora.

If you want the OpenZFS implementation, you'll need to ask upstream to
prioritize building out a FUSE backend for their implementation:
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/8




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