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cervedyesterday at 11:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

It'll never happen. You can't distribute ZFS under GPL


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sbseitztoday at 12:53 AM

Comes in binary form from Debian and Ubuntu. I can add it to any other distribution via DKMS. Same core ZFS code as BSD uses.

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dardeaupyesterday at 11:28 PM

Agreed. I'd say it goes much deeper than that in the case of FreeBSD though. It's just an ideological thing that can't be changed.