On 14/01/16 02:28 PM, Dave Love wrote:
Reindl Harald h.reindl@thelounge.net writes:
who is "Lawrence Livermore"?
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is an organization founded by the University of California to do research and development for academic and government purposes. The US Department of Energy commissioned them to port ZFS to Linux quite a long time ago[0], which is the foundation of the current ZFS on Linux codebase.
and they build a large, genral purpose, linux distribution?
Doubtless it doesn't count, but an old version of the LLNL HPC-oriented GNU/Linux distribution which incorporates ZFS is at ftp://gdo-lc.ucllnl.org/pub/projects/chaos/5.1/SRPMS/. (I don't know if the RHEL7-derived one is published.) There's another from a US lab that you may have heard of http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6x/.
There is a distribution of Linux by a US corporation with CDDL modules http://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/UEKR3/x86_64/index_src.html for their general purpose GNU/Linux distribution.
Does Oracle include ZFS in their ISO by default? If so, it is asking for trouble by violating GPL license mixing with an incompatible CDDL. Note that Oracle owns ZFS and has the liberty to sue any large commercial distribution. For that reason, it is not worth a legal risk.