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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: Domagoj Stolfa <ds815@gmx.com>
Cc: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>,
	Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>,
	guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS?
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2021 23:38:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl7jrroq.fsf@nckx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YODMpY1hqpIqp6vj@pepehands>

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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

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-03 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-03 19:33 Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS? Mark H Weaver
2021-07-03 19:53 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-07-05  9:53   ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-07-05 17:48     ` Mark H Weaver
2021-07-07 11:59       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-07-11 20:07         ` Mark H Weaver
2021-07-07 11:34     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-07-03 20:01 ` Maxime Devos
2021-07-03 20:16   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-07-03 20:46     ` Domagoj Stolfa
2021-07-03 21:38       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
2021-07-03 21:53         ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-11-20  1:09       ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-20  2:34         ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-11-21  1:33           ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-21 10:54             ` ZFS part of Guix? RFC? (Re: Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS?) pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-11-22 16:50               ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-22 18:10               ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-11-23 16:37                 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-23 17:29                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-11-23 23:50                   ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-24  0:45                     ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-24 12:03                       ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-11-24 12:32                         ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-11-24 12:51                           ` zimoun
2021-11-24 14:40                             ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-11-24 20:25                               ` zimoun
2021-11-24 13:33                         ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-24 20:02                           ` ZFS part of Guix? RFC? Vagrant Cascadian
2021-11-26 15:28                             ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-26 20:02                               ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-26 20:34                                 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-11-27 15:19                                   ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-30 15:22                               ` raid5atemyhomework
2021-11-30 21:22                                 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-11-24  1:24                     ` ZFS part of Guix? RFC? (Re: Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS?) zimoun
2021-11-24 17:24                 ` Leo Famulari
2021-11-21 22:18             ` Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS? zimoun
2021-07-04 20:11     ` Mark H Weaver
2021-07-05 10:21       ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2021-07-05 17:59         ` Mark H Weaver
2021-07-07 12:20       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice

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