Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The issue is that the Linux kernel devs consider the license terms for
> ZFS to be incompatible with GPL-2.0 and therefore ZFS cannot be
> redistributed as a Linux kernel module.
Isn't it strange that those people seem to have less problems with closed
source than with a license that gives more freedom than the GPL? But
you are correct that the problem seem to be humans and not a license text.
> There's nothing in the GPL-2 to stop you as a user from building and
> running ZFS on Linux, as GPL does not interfere with your right to run
> whatever you wish. The GPL only kicks in when code is redistributed.
There is nothing non-void in the GPL that stops you from distributing binaries.
Jörg
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