On Monday, June 29, 2020, John M. Harris Jr <joh...@splentity.com> wrote:
> On Monday, June 29, 2020 9:26:09 AM MST Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 09:59:52AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > > > > > We cannot include ZFS in Fedora for legal reasons. Additionally, ZFS > is > > > > not really intended for the laptop use case. > > > > > > Has that actually been explored? How does Canonical get around the > legal > > > issues with OpenZFS' licensing? > > > > > > I can't really speculate on Canonical's legal stance and I encourage > > everyone else to also not. > > > > I can point to Red Hat's, though: the knowledge base article here > > https://access.redhat.com/solutions/79633 says: > > > > * ZFS is not included in the upstream Linux kernel due to licensing > > reasons. > > > * Red Hat applies the upstream first policy for kernel modules (including > > filesystems). Without upstream presence, kernel modules like ZFS cannot > > be supported by Red Hat. > > > > and "due to licensing reasons" links to > > https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/ which is quite > > interesting and quite long. If you have just time to read one section, > the > > two paragraphs at the end under "Do Not Rely On This Document As Legal > > Advice" seem like the _most_ interesting to me. > > I've both read that page, and linked to it further down in this thread. > Yes, I > believe that Canonical's implementation is a GPL violation, but it doesn't > need to be. So long as the source is in a separate package, and it's > packaged > as a kmod, it wouldn't be a GPL violation. It's worth considering, in my > opinion, whether or not it'd be available for RHEL. It wouldn't be the > first > package RHEL doesn't have, but Fedora does. :) > > > That's not how the GPL work - using that argument you can link anything to a GPL only library as long as it is in a separate source tree (which is mostly the case). It's either a derived work of the kernel and thus is bound by the GPL restrictions or it isn't. Does not matter in which tarball or rpm or $whatever it is in.
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