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Subject: Re: A question about ZFS built-in SMB
From: Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> wrote:
>> All open-zfs come from basically the same source. The communities that
>> use can make decisions on how it operates on their platform.
>
>
> Oh ok. I was under the impression that Linux ZFS was basically a hack/port
> of the FreeBSD version due to licensing issues, and the FreeBSD version was
> itself a port of the illumos version.
>
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>

http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatAboutTheLicensingIssue

There is no real licensing issue since ZFS can be compiled into a
loadable kernel module(s) on Linux (just as it is used in FreeBSD
anyway) and that avoids the clash between the two mutually
incompatible licenses.

-Kimmo