On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 6:57 PM Germano Massullo <germano.massullo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > After having dealt for the n-th time with libvirt dependencies messing > up [1] with zfs packages installed from ZFS On Linux repository, I > wondered if we could just include them in Fedora repository. > They are not in the Fedora Forbidden Items [2] list. > Fedora Wiki ZFS page [3] says: > "Fedora releases don't ship proper ZFS support included to kernel > because its license CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License)[...]" > but since ZFS On Linux provide zfs-dkms package, I think this should > avoid any possible legal trouble between Linux kernel licence and ZFS > licence. > > What do you think about? > Fedora does not permit out of tree Linux kernel modules in its repositories: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packaged/#_no_external_kernel_modules The zfs-fuse package is a pure-userspace implementation using FUSE, which is why it's shipped in Fedora. If you want the OpenZFS implementation, you'll need to ask upstream to prioritize building out a FUSE backend for their implementation: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/8 -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
