[queenkjuul]

Yeah the argument breaks down for me -- this project is so stable and mainstream, it's being used by a huge community of technically lay Linux users who can't boot a home built kernel temporarily to run a data recovery?

And yet simultaneously, it's a bleeding edge experimental system that needs a license to break the Linux rules on account of its experimental nature?

I just don't see how there's a critical mass of casual users that can't handle a complicated data recovery (as in, i won't generally believe this to be true, and if it is, those users should probably stick with something more mature), AND the system is still so experimental and developing so quickly that introducing features outside the merge window should be considered uncontroversial (or even necessary, as Kent seems to sometimes argue)