From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:45:07 -0400
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Fred . wrote:
> Previously we have not been able to have ZFS support due to it being
> licensed under the CDDL and the kernel under the GPL.
> 
> Sun have contributed ZFS support to GRUB under the GPL license. We
> could now use that code to implement support for ZFS in the Linux
> kernel.
> 
> http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/zfs_under_gplv2_already_exists

Linux needs btrfs upstream more than it needs ZFS...

	Jeff