From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: Package request: ZFS Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 21:44:05 -0400 Message-ID: <8736m9sdfj.fsf@netris.org> References: <87lg028c0n.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34740) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIkVJ-0001O2-TC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 21:45:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIkVI-0004JG-Nt for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 21:45:49 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([64.112.178.59]:44862) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIkVI-0004IN-9d for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 21:45:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87lg028c0n.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Mon, 22 Apr 2019 14:23:04 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Now that we have support for linux module packages (thanks to Danny), > can we get ZFS to work on Guix? > > https://zfsonlinux.org/ Probably not, because ZFS and Linux use incompatible licenses. IANAL, but my understanding is that they impose conflicting requirements on distributors of derived works. Here are some relevant links to explain the details: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/apr/11/fsf-zfs/ https://www.fsf.org/licensing/zfs-and-linux Mark