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Re:ZFS Licensing and Linux by nabla9 on Friday February 19, 2016 @12:46PM (#11135046)
As long as the company publishes any modifications to Linux kernel, everything should be fine.
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Re:ZFS Licensing and Linux by tkinom on Saturday February 20, 2016 @07:43PM (#11142732)
My main concerns are these:

Just like a patent troll can hold a company hostage with a patent, can a "copyleft" troll / lawyers hold a company and users hostage with copyleft lawsuit?

If the zfs + linux kernel NAS products become wildly popular, can a lawyer + a kernel src copyright holder sent letter to NAS company + its customers and demand $500K or $1-10K per users to ask them to pay up?

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