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Date:      Mon, 06 Jul 2015 13:59:00 -0400
From:      Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com>
To:        freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: A question about ZFS built-in SMB
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>> 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.
>>
>
> 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.

Did this change recently? Last time I looked was a few years ago and ZFS 
on Linux was still largely an awkward hack because what they had to do 
to work around the licensing issue. I heavily investigated the 
Debian/kFreeBSD project before just going with mainline FreeBSD.







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