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The ZFS license makes it impossible to include in upstream Linux kernel, which makes it much less usable as primary filesystem.


Linux’s signed off policy makes that impossible. Linus Torvalds would need Larry Elison’s signed off before even considering it. Linus told me this by email around 2013 (if I recall correctly) when I emailed him to discuss user requests for upstream inclusion. He had no concerns about the license being different at the time.




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