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Re:ZFSBootMenu – A boot loader to manage ZFS boot environmen... by throw0101c on Saturday November 12, 2022 @12:19PM (#33575034)
> ZFS intentionally has a terrible license

The folks on FreeBSD didn't / don't seem to think so. Neither does Apple (who pulled in DTrace, which has the exact same license).

> and is owned by Oracle.

The OpenZFS folks would don't seem to think so.

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Re:ZFSBootMenu – A boot loader to manage ZFS boot environmen... by boomboomsubban on Saturday November 12, 2022 @12:38PM (#33575222)
>The OpenZFS folks would don't seem to think so.

The OpenZFS people are fully aware that Oracle owns ZFS, that's why they forked the last free copy and made OpenZFS, which is called ZFS in contexts like this post. A small nitpick.

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