[panick21_]

If you can legally distributed then there is no reason it can't be linked into the main kernel.

> I don't think fear of Oracle is the issue

Why then did Linus say exactly that?

> After all btrfs also originated in Oracle (what's worse, despicable Oracle itself, not via the Sun acquisition).

Wrong. It was simply a guy that worked for Oracle, it wasn't an Oracle project.

> Perhaps Oracle's unwillingness to relicense is simply that

It doesn't matter what Oracle once, of course they don't want anything to do with ti. The community has forked ZFS long ago and Oracle has no power what so ever to reliance most of that code.

Literally nobody wants the Oracle proprietary ZFS anyway.