On Monday, June 29, 2020 3:40:57 PM MST Markus S. wrote: > It's not a GPL violation. OpenZFS works under Linux through a compatibility > layer called SPL, the Solaris Porting Layer. SPL is licensed under GPL. > Torvalds himself said that a non-GPL file system that was written for > another OS cannot be considered a derivative of the Linux kernel: > https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/gpl_modules.html > SPL is a derived work from the Linux kernel because it's designed for the > Linux kernel. SPL is therefore under GPL. ZFS is designed for Solaris and > therefore a different license is fine. > Dell, a friggin huge US company, wouldn't distribute Ubuntu with their > laptops if they as the distributor did something illegal. That's a good point, I didn't think about that. Additionally, having the context from Linus is very useful, thank you for that! -- 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
