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by the_mitsuhiko 4498 days ago
The sad part is that both dtrace and ZFS originally did not end up in the kernel purely because of licensing reasons :-(
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There is more to it than that, the CDDL was intentionally created by Sun to be GPL incompatable, in a bid to create their own linux-like ecosystem with OpenSolaris.

The incompatable nature of the license was so linux could not merge things like ZFS and dtrace.

it was yet more Sun licensing games that only hurt adoption in the end, like their Java shenanagins.

Summing it up as "aww gee shucks licensing problems have struck again" ignores the fact that such crap was an intentional power-play from sun.

After an intentional power play from GNU. Let's not absolve them of blame.

A clash of politics had a sad effect on actual technology.