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How can Nexenta provide ZFS with GNU packages?

April 26, 2017GNU nexenta Packages ZFs

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How can Nexenta provide ZFS with GNU packages?

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In terms of the licensing, Linux is based on the GPL, while Solaris and ZFS uses Sun’s CDDL. It’s historically been said that ZFS can’t be incorporated into Linux due to incompatibilites between the two licences. However, Nexenta reckons they are on “stable legal grounds”, something it said became “extremely clear during recent GPL3 discussions.