renzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoMan I miss those classy RedHat ads from the sixtieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageMan I miss those classy RedHat ads from the sixtieslemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-squareZkhqrD5o@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 month agoBut we have OpenZFS, which is under CDDL (=LGPL). So it’s fine. Edit: I was wrong, see comment below.
minus-squareammonium@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoCDDL is not LGPL and is GPL incompatible
minus-squareammonium@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agohttps://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#CDDL Canonical ships ZFS like Nvidia ships proprietary drivers, which seems to work (legally and technically) but it means the development of ZoL is a bit cumbersome and can never be integrated in the kernel development like other filesystems.
But we have OpenZFS, which is under CDDL (=LGPL). So it’s fine.
Edit: I was wrong, see comment below.
CDDL is not LGPL and is GPL incompatible
How so?
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#CDDL
Canonical ships ZFS like Nvidia ships proprietary drivers, which seems to work (legally and technically) but it means the development of ZoL is a bit cumbersome and can never be integrated in the kernel development like other filesystems.