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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:13:45
Message-Id: 521C42BA.8020201@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo by Thomas Mueller
1 On 27/08/2013 04:04, Thomas Mueller wrote:
2 > On the issue of whether ZFS can be shipped with the Linux kernel, FreeBSD includes ZFS
3 > with the kernel, binary and source.
4 >
5 > So does that mean it would be OK for Linux too?
6
7 No.
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9 > FreeBSD has a different license (BSD) than Linux (GPL 2 or 3).
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11 Please read file COPYING in the kernel sources, the Linux kernel ships
12 with license GPL-2
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14 Not a later version at your choice (2.x) and certainly never GPL-3
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16 The issue is that the Linux kernel devs consider the license terms for
17 ZFS to be incompatible with GPL-2.0 and therefore ZFS cannot be
18 redistributed as a Linux kernel module.
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20 There's nothing in the GPL-2 to stop you as a user from building and
21 running ZFS on Linux, as GPL does not interfere with your right to run
22 whatever you wish. The GPL only kicks in when code is redistributed.
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24 The BSD license has none of these conditions, in layman terms that
25 license essentially says "you can take this code and pretty much do with
26 it whatever you want, we don't care"
27
28 > I am not a lawyer!
29 >
30 > Tom
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39 Alan McKinnon
40 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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