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On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 1:23 PM, David Sommerseth
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> On 10/04/17 09:15, Tom H wrote:
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>> zfs'll never be in-tree for licensing reasons.
>
> Well, "never" might be a too strong word. Stranger things have
> happened, like Microsoft embracing Linux and open source; even
> starting to open up some of their closed projects as open source ;-)
>
> But I'll give you that Oracle is probably a very different beast on
> the legal side and doesn't have a too good "open source karma".

No one can see Oracle changing the zfs license to one that's
gpl-compatible. The cddl is supposed to be gpl-incompatible by design.

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