Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> 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 -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
