Originally posted by Luke_Wolf
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A lot of that work for both Windows and OSX is done by lundman, a person working for an ISP in Japan that's put in 6 years of work in porting ZFS to more platforms. Back in the day there was a certain project from the Linus feller, a single developer, that ported a kernel to a new platform and it wasn't the most stable of things...then other people helped out and now we're 4 days away from its 32nd Anniversary. That old, buggy kernel from a single developer now powers the most powerful computing devices in the world and has hundreds of contributors. Bcachefs has like one or two people working on it. Only has a couple of people working on it is the Marvel Origin Story of nearly every Open Source Project.
I don't think anyone cares about the OpenZFS licensing outside of Linux/GPL people trying to make points that have much ado about nothing outside of philosophical debates. The licenses conflicting don't stop it from being a module, it doesn't stop allowing end-users to bake it into the kernel themselves, and it doesn't stop distributions from hosting the modules in a separate package.
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