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Re: is zfs incompatible with the GNU Project ?



24 march 2012: 10:58 p.m. paolo del bene <id3rfix@gmail.com> wrote:
> i asked to Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman about the license, and you can read
> below the reply of Richard Matthew Stallman.

> happy hacking

> paolo

23 march 2012 10:16 p.m., Richard Matthew Stallman <rms@> wrote:
> My impression was that there was a specific effort to implement a set of
> headers and in-kernel hooks as original work under the BSDL, that would be
> sufficient to allow a CDDL-licensed module to be loaded at runtime and
> still supply ZFS functionality.

> It would violate the GPL to load that CDDL-licensed module dynamically
> into a GPL-covered kernel.

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