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by floatboth 2340 days ago
Uh, isn't Canonical already shipping ZFS in the latest Ubuntu? https://www.techrepublic.com/article/something-exciting-is-c...

Their argument (as I understand it) is that loadable kernel modules are separate discrete pieces of software that do not become "part of" the kernel and do not have to care about kernel licensing. They can be any license, including proprietary, like nvidia drivers.

There is about zero need for "integration" as in static linking / inclusion in the linux repo btw. Nothing wrong with dkms.