Debian Is Still Working To Tackle ZFS On Linux Support

[reub2000]

Libdvdcss is just a question of patents and possibly export laws effectively

No I think he's right. It violates the DMCA's anti-circumvention restrictions. Illegal in the US.

[jhenke]

If you want ZFS on Debian, just install Debian/kFreeBSD. ZFS works fine out of the box. Despite being not a release architecture, the team is preparing a Jessie release right now.

[Luke_Wolf]

ZFS should be easy unless they copied the code. DVD support will break laws.

Actually no, the ZFS part is the harder one. Libdvdcss is just a question of patents and possibly export laws effectively, whereas ZFS has a completely incompatible license to the Linux Kernel, which short of Oracle relicensing the code, can't be resolved. At best they can have the installer download the ZFS module if the user chooses to install it, with it being noted that it taints the kernel.

[toyotabedzrock]

ZFS should be easy unless they copied the code. DVD support will break laws.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

How about they get off their asses and get GNOME 3.16.2 out and KDE 5? No one truly gives a frack whether ZFS is stable on Debian, but a select minority.

[reub2000]

Ahh, nothing says freedom like having to ask your lawyers if you're allowed to combine 2 pieces of software.

[dungeon]

And FSF asked about ZFS CDDL was designed to work against GPL, i didn't expect anything

[gens]

"...and hopefully soon the Linux Foundation"
ye good luck with that

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Debian Is Still Working To Tackle ZFS On Linux Support

Last month we heard libdvdcss and ZFS should soon appear in Debian GNU/Linux, but now it doesn't appear that easy... It could end up taking a while longer for the ZFS file-system and the libdvdcss support for DVD playback on Debian to appear within the official repositories...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-Libdvdcss-ZFS-Update