Do you think the RMS and the FSF are going to go after Canonical legally if
they ship Ubuntu with the ZFS kernel? In the recent Linux Unplugged podcast
(I posted the .webm link earlier), they talked to Alan Pope from Canonical
about it. He didn't see it as a big deal and everyone is overreacting.
There was also some commentary from others during the show about how RMS and
the FSF are actually being bullies about this. The whole "you will change
your licence because I tell you to" approach that the FSF is using against
Oracle will not hold up. Sun/Oracle licensed ZFS under the CDDL so it would
keep it out of the Linux kernel as to not hurt their prior operating systems.
Its funny that Solaris no longer exists and Oracle's "Oracle Linux" is merely
a re-implentation of CentOS/Red Hat and they cannot include their own ZFS
technology unless they change the license.
So will the Free Software Conservatory and the FSF go after Canonical? If
they do not, then it opens the door to push around the GPL in the future as
it will not hold up in court. If they do take Canonical to court, it will
cause bad will between the camps and Canonical will fight back and try to
take the FSF to the cleaners. The FSF will still look out of touch and overly
controlling regarding the issue and will also be seen as hurting GNU/Linux
adoption.
