Fwd: Bug#651624: is zfs incompatible with the GNU Project ?

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From: Paolo Delbene <id3rfix <at> gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 05:43:17 +0000
Subject: Re: Bug#651624: is zfs incompatible with the GNU Project ?
To: rms

in reply to hannes, benjamin kaduk told:

richard: what do you think about ?

happy hacking,

paolo

2012/2/10, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk <at> mit.edu>:
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Hannes wrote:
>
>>
>> I was under the impression that the ZFS kernel code in FreeBSD is original
>>
>> work under the 2C-BSDL . At least the headers in
>> /usr/src/sys/cddl/compat/opensolaris/kern
>> give this impression.
>> So only the userland code (lib and tools) is under CDDL.
>
> My impression was that there was a specific effort to implement a set of
> headers and in-kernel hooks as original work under the BSDL, that would be
> sufficient to allow a CDDL-licensed module to be loaded at runtime and
> still supply ZFS functionality.
> This way, the stock kernel that is shipped is entirely BSDL, but the