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Comment by CannisterFlux

Here's the other side of the argument:

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/18/zfs-licensing-and-lin...

"""The CDDL cannot apply to the Linux kernel because zfs.ko is a self-contained file system module — the kernel itself is quite obviously not a derivative work of this new file system.

And zfs.ko, as a self-contained file system module, is clearly not a derivative work of the Linux kernel but rather quite obviously a derivative work of OpenZFS and OpenSolaris."""

This has been shipped in Ubuntu for a year now and nothing bad has happened, so it must be OK. Maybe.

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