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Re:In Praise of ZFS on Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon' by viraptor on Monday July 20, 2020 @05:19AM (#23896141)
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CDDL

"This means a module covered by the GPL and a module covered by the CDDL cannot legally be linked together."

I don't think the incompatibilities are really unintended. If anyone has enough lawyers and money to relicense something correctly, it's Oracle.

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Re:In Praise of ZFS on Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon' by trasz on Monday July 20, 2020 @06:59AM (#23896609)
Except then you'd loose the patent protection provided by CDDL. And you'd cause licensing problems for literally everyone else but Linux. And you probably wouldn't gain anything in the long run anyway; AdvFS was released under GPL and went nowhere.
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