Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > The issue is that the Linux kernel devs consider the license terms for > ZFS to be incompatible with GPL-2.0 and therefore ZFS cannot be > redistributed as a Linux kernel module.
Isn't it strange that those people seem to have less problems with closed source than with a license that gives more freedom than the GPL? But you are correct that the problem seem to be humans and not a license text. > There's nothing in the GPL-2 to stop you as a user from building and > running ZFS on Linux, as GPL does not interfere with your right to run > whatever you wish. The GPL only kicks in when code is redistributed. There is nothing non-void in the GPL that stops you from distributing binaries. 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
