Assuming I can reply to my own post? Anyway, I dug up comments from a Gentoo Developer and ZFS On Linux contributor, Richard Yaoon Phoronix: &quot;Michael&#x27;s prediction that 15.10 will use a DKMS package is likely correct  ... there is no legal issue preventing the sources from being combined because neither the CDDL nor the GPL place restrictions on aggregations of source code, which is what putting ZFS into the same tree as Linux would be. Binary modules built from such a tree could be distributed with the kernel&#x27;s GPL modules under what the GPL considers to be an aggregate&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;forum&#x2F;software&#x2F;general-linux-open-source&#x2F;827623-ubuntu-is-planning-to-make-the-zfs-file-system-a-standard-offering" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;forum&#x2F;software&#x2F;general-linux-...</a><p>Edit: Some other details on Softpedia including a comment from a Canonical developer.
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.softpedia.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;zfs-file-system-for-ubuntu-16-04-lts-is-90-ready-498166.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.softpedia.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;zfs-file-system-for-ubuntu-16...</a>