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Yeah I doubt RIM would agree with you. That is just one example.
I don't get this reference. Links?
Native port of ZFS for Linux
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Re: Native port of ZFS for Linux
#32They claim that they're legally free and clear, but a lot of the kernel devs are of the view that kernel modules are derived works of the kernel and therefore have to be GPL.
Compliance with a published API doens't mean it's a derived work.
While it obviously can't be distributed with the mainline kernel due to licencing issues, it can be distributed standalone to work with Linux, or any other hypothetical system that provided the same API.