-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, 2020-06-29 at 12:26 -0400, 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. This is not fully true to my knowledge. Red Hat ships VDO and that is not even sent to upstream (yet?). > 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 - -- Igor Raits <ignatenkobrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEcwgJ58gsbV5f5dMcEV1auJxcHh4FAl76ONYACgkQEV1auJxc Hh5R7w//TvrXFDfvGwaKV0jSjy6OPKea+Y2urF8pjrH1lEBb2PpvW+I2jxqKy6BM lXeR0nShtlJJ6IHjq7IK8xUZiNBzbCbJQGURdRkh63ZENQrbJ52BPYJv190/Fh4g R/rHBbvja/Q0y/LRZK5heXknIELPZdWfD1N3hHvhc+J9uHlmozZBhlO3zk3kcZaL OwsrV5UzgccFfmWyOFTcx1VFLqoILJW6vo10m+qM47jwpdNlJQTBw9i1s8PDMsAI d045ZmX+u2ZTS7YJ3AJ+YaXQXlhI2DUUYc5R2hf8whUp7Fi68RJMseK8ar8kxLby HRSzTP55VYnApUBJ78KoVq7wvWdFCGq15YR39hVC/B1GgzjxYhzv53FJ2/Sy5Q2d jbWGvtpd8E5+29jhvGC+fDJ91XsTLdmkNOS8w+McQUkFiJdzqVzUIjzHz4bzK4wS agqsylZP+E79nxjKaQdE5vGdACN9cZnh/Za2sWLTGiVE1Rw7eDVhaDtpGjBVrwUr Y0sNSzbqVM2NE1pE6g43AisA533iD8b2XxplWhhoeHp1RRiASkp9yh6WibTDyFXW 9wnXmzIa3Swte3n+LvV9lSlILYoGdQKMljYNU/yr1zMsR9yBRx6fpijinzGWJ6oM /Ug7h+W7HPgWQk+sGJJs7mHXfYdAODzupSXhQml0hURMRQ/qaOs= =6vGj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
