Re: [Trisquel-users] ZFS now available in Debian. Maybe its time to stop fighting it?

[dguthrie]

Trisquel does not distribute anything that violates copyrights significantly.  
Things like emulators are a grey area, but court cases have shown that if  
such programs are made through reverse engineering they do not violate  
copyright; you can just play homebrew games or ROM images you ripped from  
disks or cartridges.
ZFS is free software. On its own, where it isn't combined with GPL software  
(kernel) it is fine, but distributing it violates GPL and hence the copyright  
of the kernel. This would not be good to distribute.
It's a grey area. This is about being consistent. If we want to support GPL  
and copyleft, we need to reject violations. I think that copyright law needs  
serious reform but as long  as it still exists we must use copyleft to  
support freedom.
ZFS (or lack thereof) will not makebor break the distribution. Just get over  
it. We don't want to be popular if it means compromising our ideals.
By the way, the FSF is not a bloody church. Just use Ubuntu if you want ZFS  
so much, or a non FSF-affiliated distribution.