Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical merges GPL-incompatible kernel module ZFS to the kernel tree for Ubuntu 16.04

[tegskywalker]

In the end, this will not affect Trisquel much as it is primarily used for  
the desktop. If a developer needs ZFS and chooses a GNU/Linux platform, it  
will likely be CentOS/Ubuntu or one of the BSDs and not Trisquel. I'm sure  
you wouldn't care about that either since the majority of people here hate  
the concept of "cloud computing" and would rather everything be as it was  
with dedicated machines. I still think it was unnecessary on Canonical's end  
to ship a ZFS kernel with their desktop version by default and should have  
put it into the server ISO.

I'm still not 100% in agreement over the compete purging of the ZFS codebase  
from the repositories. ZFS is free software, but there is a GPL  
incompatibility that keeps it out of the kernel tree. If you remove the ZFS  
packages (which would require the user to take action to install locally for  
private use), then that means you should remove all other free software from  
the repositories if it butts heads with the GPL. If you don't it makes you  
look silly and biased.