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On 27/08/2013 04:04, Thomas Mueller wrote: |
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> On the issue of whether ZFS can be shipped with the Linux kernel, FreeBSD includes ZFS |
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> with the kernel, binary and source. |
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> So does that mean it would be OK for Linux too? |
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No. |
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> FreeBSD has a different license (BSD) than Linux (GPL 2 or 3). |
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Please read file COPYING in the kernel sources, the Linux kernel ships |
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with license GPL-2 |
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Not a later version at your choice (2.x) and certainly never GPL-3 |
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The issue is that the Linux kernel devs consider the license terms for |
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ZFS to be incompatible with GPL-2.0 and therefore ZFS cannot be |
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redistributed as a Linux kernel module. |
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There's nothing in the GPL-2 to stop you as a user from building and |
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running ZFS on Linux, as GPL does not interfere with your right to run |
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whatever you wish. The GPL only kicks in when code is redistributed. |
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The BSD license has none of these conditions, in layman terms that |
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license essentially says "you can take this code and pretty much do with |
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it whatever you want, we don't care" |
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> I am not a lawyer! |
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> Tom |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |