On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 1:23 PM, David Sommerseth <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On 10/04/17 09:15, Tom H wrote: >> >> 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.