GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux (2016)
Here&#x27;s the other side of the argument:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insights.ubuntu.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;18&#x2F;zfs-licensing-and-linux&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insights.ubuntu.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;18&#x2F;zfs-licensing-and-lin...</a><p>&quot;&quot;&quot;The CDDL cannot apply to the Linux kernel because zfs.ko is a self-contained file system module — the kernel itself is quite obviously not a derivative work of this new file system.<p>And zfs.ko, as a self-contained file system module, is clearly not a derivative work of the Linux kernel but rather quite obviously a derivative work of OpenZFS and OpenSolaris.&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>This has been shipped in Ubuntu for a year now and nothing bad has happened, so it must be OK. Maybe.