[arch-general] ZFS in repos?

[Jonathon Fernyhough]

On 23/07/2022 21:11, Piscium via arch-general wrote:
> ZFS is in AUR. I wonder what is the reason why it is not moved to the
> Arch repos? The zfs-linux package has 250 votes, the zfs-dkms has 137,
> and the zfs-linux-lts has 70. I am aware about the possible license
> incompatibility between the kernel which uses GPL2 and ZFS which uses
> CDDL, however even Debian which is strict about several things such as
> what is 'free software', has ZFS in its main repos.

Adding the pre-compiled module isn't possible because of the license 
incompatibility. Adding zfs-dkms might be an option, but someone would 
have to maintain it in the repo.
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