Re: Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS?

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1092 bytes --]

Domagoj Stolfa 写道：
> Why can substitutes not be offered for ZFS as a standalone 
> module? I'm not a
> lawyer nor do I understand much lawyerese, but AIUI, the problem 
> stems from
> the FSF lawyers thinking it wouldn't stand up in court to 
> distribute CDDL
> software linked against GPL'd software as one big binary. Could 
> someone please
> explain why it would not be acceptable to distribute substitutes 
> of ZFS as a
> *standalone kernel module*, rather than as a part of 
> linux-libre?

The question assumes there's such a thing as a *standalone [Linux] 
kernel module*.

This is not a given, and according to all lawyers the FSF has 
talked to, a fiction.  Or so the FSF states in the last paragraph 
of the ‘What Constitutes the Entire Work?’ section of 
<https://www.fsf.org/licensing/zfs-and-linux>.

(Sorry for the link!  I couldn't resist ;-)

My understanding was (and still is) that this is specific to 
CDDL+GPL only, not CDDL+LGPL, so distributing a dynamically linked 
libvirt with ZFS support is allowed.

Kind regards,

T G-R

[-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 243 bytes --]