Fwd: Bug#651624: is zfs incompatible with the GNU Project ?

[Paolo Del Bene]

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From: Richard Stallman
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:16:37 -0400
Subject: Re: Bug#651624: is zfs incompatible with the GNU Project ?
To: Paolo Delbene <id3rfix at gmail.com>

    > My impression was that there was a specific effort to implement a set of
    > headers and in-kernel hooks as original work under the BSDL, that would be
    > sufficient to allow a CDDL-licensed module to be loaded at runtime and
    > still supply ZFS functionality.

It would violate the GPL to load that CDDL-licensed module dynamically
into a GPL-covered kernel.

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