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A comment on ZFS Licensing and Linux.

Re:ZFS Licensing and Linux by cjbprime on Friday February 19, 2016 @02:02PM (#11135691)
> Equivalent exceptions have existed for many years, for various other stand alone, self-contained, non-GPL and even proprietary (hi, nvidia.ko) kernel modules.

If your conclusion depends on asserting the obvious legality of nvidia.ko and saying that you're just doing what they are, you're in a super bad place.

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Re:ZFS Licensing and Linux by ealexhudson on Friday February 19, 2016 @02:17PM (#11135822)
That, plus at least one of the authors in question (Oracle, nee Sun) appears to have picked a license deliberately to ensure that ZFS couldn't be distributed with Linux. They were otherwise happy to dual-license with some form of GPL where it suited them; Apple dropped the thing like a hot rock too.

A read of the license text is one thing, the intent of the author is quite another...

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