If I'm recalling correctly, "Linux" has done this before. Taken an exported function used by ZFS and bringing it back inside so it was no longer visible. Mailing lists (LKML) at the time were basically "eff it who cares ZFS sucks". So there is precedent for the hostility towards ZFS.
But do these changes that appear to be targeted at ZFS affect any other third party filesystem that someone wants to create? Or because of these changes, anything they do MUST be GPL?
For a long time it seems as if Linux has been antagonistic towards anything "not GPL"; moving towards "If it's not GPL you will not be able to work with the kernel".
But do these changes that appear to be targeted at ZFS affect any other third party filesystem that someone wants to create? Or because of these changes, anything they do MUST be GPL?
For a long time it seems as if Linux has been antagonistic towards anything "not GPL"; moving towards "If it's not GPL you will not be able to work with the kernel".