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> I would be keen to point out this does not mean there is a conflict of licenses from a legal point of view. Before anyone starts making claims like "you're not allowed to do this", see the use of the ZFS kernel module in recent releases of Ubuntu. AFAIK it's only packaged as a dkms-package: Package: zfs-dkms Version: 0.6.5.6-0ubuntu8 Priority: extra Section: universe/kernel Source: zfs-linux Origin: Ubuntu Maintain…
That's actually only half the story and mostly not relevant... the dkms package is still there, but ZFS is now shipped with the kernel package: lathiat@ubuntu:~$ dpkg -S zfs.ko linux-image-4.4.0-35-generic: /lib/modules/4.4.0-35-generic/kernel/zfs/zfs/zfs.ko linux-image-4.4.0-36-generic: /lib/modules/4.4.0-36-generic/kernel/zfs/zfs/zfs.ko Announcement is here: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/16/zfs-is-the-fs-for-…
Re: DTrace and Python
#21Thank you for taking the time to reply with those two links. Very interesting (and directly helpful as one of my use-cases is led+zfs. Not needing the dkms module makes things simpler).