On 2025-05-25, Jay F. Shachter <j...@m5.chicago.il.us> wrote: > I like to complain that whoever controls > the OpenBSD project is terrified of the ZFS patents, which I think is > pin-headed, and no one in the Linux or Illumos or FreeBSD or NetBSD > worlds is terrified of the ZFS patents
The patents are ok if you accept CDDL, which OpenBSD doesn't. Illumos is mostly under CDDL anyway. AFAIK FreeBSD and NetBSD accept CDDL for this. I don't think "no one in the Linux .. worlds is terrified of the ZFS patents" is correct. The situation there is complicated. It's distributed as a kernel module or FUSE package, not as part of the Linux kernel, and people using it need to accept CDDL.
