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Comment by cs702

I suspect an unmentioned goal of this project is eventually to make the installation of OpenZFS on Linux (and other *ix operating systems) quick and simple, legally running around Oracle's license restrictions.[1]

Unsurprisingly, the list of supporting companies[2] does not include Oracle, which surely isn't happy about this project.

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[1] The source code upon which OpenZFS is based was provided by Oracle (Sun) under the CDDL license, which prevents OpenZFS from being distributed in binary form as part of the Linux kernel.

[2] http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/Companies

parent cs702 13 years ago

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