I do not see how this is such a big "licensing" problem - the CDDL and
GPL-2 are "incompatible" but this just means the verbatim ZFS code will
never be accepted into the *mainline kernel*. Ubuntu has a specific
solution to this - the "ubuntu" directory in the kernel tree, which
holds stuff like compcache (BTW *please* update this to 0.5.3) and
wireless drivers and so on.

That has not stopped Ubuntu shipping non-free Proprietary drivers
(either licensed under some other license than GPL) and even binary
drivers.

It astounds me that nobody has even bothered to make a Linux kernel
module that implements ZFS natively, yet everyone who is that concerned
is probably running fglrx or some binary wireless firmware or putting
something through NDISWrapper... or running WINE..

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202952
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