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

[Mehdi Dogguy]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 05:20:19PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clopezatigalia.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Maybe "invalidated" was not the appropriate word here, but clearly,
what I said so far on this list (if you re-read carefuly) is not in
contradiction with what is below in your original mail. Or, there is
some misunderstanding somewhere and i'll be happy to make it clearer.

> 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,

-- 
Mehdi Dogguy