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Re:ZFS for Dummies by kaba0 on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @02:15AM (#37388437)
CDDL (ZFS’s license) is also like that, the problem is exactly the two “strong” copyleft licenses.
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Re:ZFS for Dummies by jakobson14 on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @02:58PM (#37396155)
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#CDDL

>"It has a weak per-file copyleft (like version 1 of the Mozilla Public License)"

The CDDL isn't a strong copyleft licence. It doesn't give a shit what larger project you include the code into, and it doesn't give a shit how you licence the resulting binary. It's considerably more permissive than the GPL.

The conflict is entirely on the GPL side.

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