Re: ZFS part of Guix? RFC? (Re: Effectively force all GNOME users to locally compile ZFS?)

[zimoun]

Hi Florian,

On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 at 13:32, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" 
<pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> wrote:

> I don't know if that convinces maintainers to change decisions.

This decision is consistent with the analysis [1] done by Software
Conservancy Freedom, at least.

I have not read a clear position by the FSF.  They only analyses [2] the
incompatibilities of licenses but their analysis is not fine enough to
conclude what is their position about distributing ZFS; although they
say «ZFS is free software», thus nothing prevent Guix to distribute
source code of ZFS.


1: <https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/>
2: 
<https://www.fsf.org/news/interpreting-enforcing-and-changing-the-gnu-gpl-as-applied-to-combining-linux-and-zfs>

Cheers,
simon