Native port of ZFS for Linux

Re:Native port of ZFS for Linux by wazoox on Friday June 04, 2010 @02:37PM (#1405169)

I'd like to know how this could be legally redistributable, given the license conundrum CDDL and GPLv2 make. Any idea?

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Re:Native port of ZFS for Linux by wmf on Friday June 04, 2010 @03:51PM (#1405425)

ZFS is redistributable and Linux is redistributable; you just can't redistribute the combination. So you'll have to download and install ZFS separately.

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Re:Native port of ZFS for Linux by ominous_prime on Friday June 04, 2010 @11:18PM (#1406274)

Thank you. I was looking for some discussion here, but everyone was just spouting off about patents, and it being "illegal", which isn't the case. OpenAFS has a similar license incompatibility, yet it's still very widely used.

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Re:Native port of ZFS for Linux by wazoox on Friday June 04, 2010 @05:12PM (#1405673)

Mmmh, interesting. Apparently they did this with production in mind, so it must be usable. I'll give it a try...

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