[cyphar]

> Does Oracle want to sue? I kinda doubt it: if they did, they would have done so by now.

What makes you say that? It's a very common tactic to give people "enough rope to hang themselves", where you intentionally delay suing someone in the hopes that more people will infringe so you can settle for more money. This happened with the LZ4 patent trolls for example (where they were suing people for using GIF files, and they waited several years after their patent was filed before suing people).

Not to mention that copyright lasts _120 years_ at the moment. Unless you wait until 2125 until you redistribute ZoL, you cannot ever be sure that Oracle won't sue you.

> Who exactly would stand to gain from keeping ZFS out of Linux

Oracle. They were the main btrfs developers (and still are), and since they no longer have any of the old ZFS engineers they would (rather ironically) probably consider a viable ZFS-on-Linux distribution to affect their bottom-line.