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Bug#686447: ITP: zfs-linux -- The native Linux kernel port of the ZFS filesystem



On 01/09/12 20:36, Arno Töll wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 01.09.2012 20:02, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
>> This package contains the source code for the native implementation
>> of ZFS for the Linux Kernel, which can be used with DKMS, so that
>> local kernel modules are automatically built and installed every time
>> the kernel packages are upgraded.
> 
> Question remains whether the resulting binary packages are distributable
> by Debian. You'd basically need to ship source only binary packages
> which are built on the installing platform - including utilities, not
> only for the kernel driver.
> 
> 

The user space utilities are not linked against any GPL library so there
isn't any license problem distributing them in binary form.

The only external dependencies for the user-space utilities are:
libselinux1, zlib1g, and of course libc6.

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