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Re:ZFS 2.2.0 (RC): Block Cloning merged by PlutoIsAPlanet on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @05:21PM (#36592646)
The Linux kernel has never supported out of tree modules like how ZFS works out of tree.

All ZFS needs to do is just have one of Oracles many lawyers say "CDDL is compatible with GPL". Yet, they Oracle don't.

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Re:ZFS 2.2.0 (RC): Block Cloning merged by rincebrain on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @05:31PM (#36592746)
"All."

It's explicitly not compatible with GPL, though. It has clauses that are more restrictive than GPL, and IIRC some people who contributed to the OpenZFS project did so explicitly without allowing later CDDL license revisions, which removes Oracle's ability to say CDDL-2 or whatever is GPL-compatible.

So even if someone rolled up dumptrucks of cash and convinced Oracle that everything was great, they don't have all the control needed to do that.

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