On 05/05/2017, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 2017-05-05 at 14:26 +0100, Sam Kuper wrote: >> On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 19:51:23 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> > On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 18:20 +0200, Timo Haas wrote: >> > > do you plan to support zfs as root filesystem in the installer? >> > >> > ZFS binaries are not distributable due to the licence conflict, so this >> > is unlikely to happen. >> >> If the Debian Installer were instead to ship with, or to download at >> runtime, the ZFS on Linux source code, would that be acceptable from a >> licensing standpoint? > > I imagine this would be acceptable (though not in the default > installer, which only uses and installs packages from main).
Good point. Potential avenues: 1. Move ZFS *source* into "main". Would this be possible without compromising Debian's "obviously prudent" arrangement?[1] Should I CC debian-legal? 2. Add ZFS to a Debian Installer that is not the *default* Debian Installer. Does Debian distribute such an installer, to which the facility to compile and run ZFS could be added? Thanks :) (Please CC me, as I am still not subscribed to the mailing list.) [1] https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2016/linux-kernel-cddl.html
