zfs cddl & gpl

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Mon Nov 21 17:48:10 UTC 2005


On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:48:04AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 17:39 +0000, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> > Why not? Why not as userland filesystem via FUSE? Are there any legal
> > problems with that?
> > 
> > Not that I'm asking for it to be included, just curious.
> 
> Yes there is problems.  ZFS software cannot be included in Fedora
> because it is licensed with a GPL incompatible license.

So is Apache's httpd. Still, it is included.

Look, I haven't been living in a cave. I've read the discussion about
ZFS being incompatible with GPL, so it can't be ported to the kernel.

But I'm speaking of porting it to FUSE.

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lfr
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