[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] What more can be done to get ZFS into Debian?

[Turbo Fredriksson]

On Apr 22, 2016, at 10:06 AM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:

> Can you be a bit specific about "this isn't allowed"?

I could barely, with help, understand the legal discussions when they
where 'hot', but I think the large majority agreed that shipping binary
modules was not allowed according to some clause of either GPL or CDDL.
Or the combination. Or something… As I said, I barely understood it at
the time.

> Shipping pre-built binaries is now allowed, yes. But, does the current
> approach relies on pre-built binaries in d-i?

Pretty much. Unless we want to extend the image with all the build tools,
kernel source etc, etc. I did some attempts on using zfs-fuse, and had
partial success, but that's a horrible (!!) solution.


ZoL can only be accessed in two ways:

	1. Build them yourself
	2. Provided from somewhere

CDDL and GPL is apparently incompatible in such a way, that it can NEVER
(ever!) go into the Linux kernel source (at least according to Linus and
almost everyone else). And create a fully open sourced (i.e. GPL) version
of ZFS is … well, not going to happen.

And is 2 is out (from ZoL or Debian GNU/Linux), then it's 1. And that require
a fully fledged build system/environment. I can think of no other solution :(

> ... and since <4F3CF0B8-F8D7-47D4-BD30-738611BFAAF4 at bayour.com>, did you
> try to approach the D-I Release Manager again?

No, what's the point!? ZoL isn't in Debian GNU/Linux. Once (if?!) it is
accepted, I'll see what I can do to reopen the issue. The point is, all
the code already exists! We just need it accepted already! It's been
four years for g**ds sake!!