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

[Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez]

On 22/04/16 09:45, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
>>
>>  [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/04/msg00006.html
>>
> 
> The SFLC advice was invalidated by Conservancy though. I guess Lucas's
> message back then was more about to give a status update and not to be
> taken as a decision.

This is plainly wrong.

Don't confuse distributing ZFS in source code form and distributing it
in binary form.

What Conservancy said is that they think that distributing ZFS in binary
form [1] is a violation of the GLPv2.

They never said that distributing ZFS as a DKMS package (source-code
only) was a violation of the GPLv2.

Ubuntu is distributing ZoL in binary form (binary modules already
built), but we aren't.
We never intended to distribute ZoL in binary form. We only want to
distribute ZoL as a DKMS source-code package.

Regards
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[1]
"""
The situation escalated last week because Canonical, Ltd. announced
their plans to commercially distribute, in Ubuntu 16.04, a *binary*
distribution of ZFS as a Linux kernel module, which adapts ZFS natively
for Linux. Conservancy contacted Canonical to inform them of their GPL
violation,
"""
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/

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