I believe the ZFS on Linux project cannot change the license as it is a fork
of the original and is bound to it. That is a shame, since ZFS is exceptional
and having it on GNU/Linux would be a big deal. Especially since the more
liberal BSD operating systems have it and if GNU/Linux vendors can move
companies to their platform instead of BSD, they will.
In the end, ZFS is free software. It just has licensing issues if included
with the restrictive GPL licenses of the kernel.
If you are going to fight Canonical on this, there are ways around it. They
could just ship a dummy package on their Ubuntu ISOs and bring in the ZFS
code on the next update. They wouldn't be shipping an ISO with kernel that
violated the GPL (which is up for debate as ZFS is still free software) and
since the code would be brought in later via an update, they could still
advertise that Ubuntu supports ZFS.
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