Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

[Erik Trulsson]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 07:21:41PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> I just read with some concern the announcement that Sun's ZFS has 
> been integrated into the FreeBSD kernel. This would mean, 
> unfortunately, that FreeBSD is now covered by the CDDL, which is a 
> viral license similar to the GPL. Has FreeBSD abandoned its 
> longstanding practice of keeping the kernel truly free?

It is not compiled in by default - for license reasons.  
In this respect it is no different than the GPL-licensed kernel components
which are also not compiled in by default.

To use either you will have to either compile a custom kernel, or load the
component as a module.


I.e. the FreeBSD kernel is still just as free as it has always been.



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