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Re:ZFS lands in Debian contrib by ashitlerferad on Sunday May 15, 2016 @07:37AM (#11700529)
It isn't legal to distribute the binary of zfs.ko

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/

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Re:ZFS lands in Debian contrib by krondor on Sunday May 15, 2016 @11:43AM (#11701313)
Canonical is doing so anyway and it seems they have a legal disagreement on the interpretation of the law with the Software Freedom Conservancy.

IANAL so I have no clue what is technically correct, but the fact is that Ubuntu is distributing zfs.ko in 16.04.

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