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Re:ZFS for Dummies by kaba0 on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @02:13AM (#37388421)
On what grounds? ZFS has an open-source license. The only semi-open question related to the topic is packaging it together with another, different open-source license that is viral and mandates more things (GPL). That part is not being “violated” by an enduser, but the distro maintainer.
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Re:ZFS for Dummies by jakobson14 on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @12:41AM (#37401412)
Oracle's hands are tied in so far as they can't revoke the CDDL licence that Sun provided.

They could sue you as a kernel contributor, but only if you do something to violate the GPL. The only thing that would clearly violate the GPL, in the era of proprietary nvidia blobs, is if you tried to ship the ZFS source code in-tree.

Everybody agrees that's a bad idea, nobody does it. ZFS instead is shipped as a separate kernel module.

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