Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> > Would be nice if there was a kernel overlay for this...
>
> The licensing conflict means that would not be possible. You have the
> install the kernel source and then merge in the ZFS source yourself, it
> can't be done for you and distributed.
Why do you believe this?
ZFS id doubtlessly an own "work" independent from the rest of the Linux kernel
and for this reason, adding ZFS just creates a collective work that is not
affected by the GPL.
BTW: this was already explained in the GPL book from Till Jaeger et al.
published in March 2005.
Jörg
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