[nisa]

Another fix for that is to switch the ZFS license to GPL before building:

Just put this line:

sed -i "s/CDDL/GPL/g" META

in the prepare() section of the PKGBUILD.

This will use the in-kernel FPU functions for cryptography and other things like raidz calculations that got EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'ed later if the original plumbing is still in the codebase. It's probably not offically recommend and I'm not sure how much these codepaths are tested anymore but I assume that quite a few people that don't need to redistribute anything but need the performance use a hack like this or something similiar. It works fine for me.

Personally I lost a ton of respect for the Linux kernel developers after introducing that kernel fpu EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL thing and backporting it to all kernels and Linus badmouthing ZFS and somehow assuming Oracle is still involved in OpenZFS which is mostly FreeBSD and some sponsors spread out over the world but not related to Oracle.

[Sodel]

I mostly agree with your points except to say that, even if Oracle is not active in the project, the risk is real as long as Oracle owns any of the copyright for any ZFS code.

The USL vs BSDi litigation over BSD ultimately came down to a handful of source files out of 18000. ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Berkeley_Soft... )

I wouldn't talk badly against ZFS, but I would not roll any dice with Oracle as a copyright holder.

[nine_k]

This evokes in me a distinct feeling of applying a crack to run a pirated game.

[nisa]

I guess it violates the CDDL licence - at the time some distributions like NixOS just patched the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL out of the Linux kernel (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/61076/commits/7b77c27c...) which could even be totally legal for redistribution as the GPL probably allows this?

[nicman23]

it is probably fine as it is just the instructions. i have done it before in a raspberry for some reason i do not remember

[tiberious726]

So the answer is crime?