On Monday, June 29, 2020 9:26:09 AM MST Matthew Miller wrote: > 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. I've both read that page, and linked to it further down in this thread. Yes, I believe that Canonical's implementation is a GPL violation, but it doesn't need to be. So long as the source is in a separate package, and it's packaged as a kmod, it wouldn't be a GPL violation. It's worth considering, in my opinion, whether or not it'd be available for RHEL. It wouldn't be the first package RHEL doesn't have, but Fedora does. :) -- John M. Harris, Jr. _______________________________________________ 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
