On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 09:59:52AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > We cannot include ZFS in Fedora for legal reasons. Additionally, ZFS is not > > really intended for the laptop use case. > Has that actually been explored? How does Canonical get around the legal > issues with OpenZFS' licensing? I can't really speculate on Canonical's legal stance and I encourage everyone else to also not. I can point to Red Hat's, though: the knowledge base article here https://access.redhat.com/solutions/79633 says: * ZFS is not included in the upstream Linux kernel due to licensing reasons. * Red Hat applies the upstream first policy for kernel modules (including filesystems). Without upstream presence, kernel modules like ZFS cannot be supported by Red Hat. and "due to licensing reasons" links to https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/ which is quite interesting and quite long. If you have just time to read one section, the two paragraphs at the end under "Do Not Rely On This Document As Legal Advice" seem like the _most_ interesting to me. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
