Another polemic around Ubuntu

[Michael Hall]

On 06/01/2016 09:33 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> Now the Software Freedom Conservancy is officially against Canonical:
> (https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux)
> 
> It is because of small things like this why people are not believing in
> Ubuntu. Sure there is proprietary software like drivers, codecs and
> Flash that getting rid of them would be too painful. But this is not the
> case.
> 
> The point is, while most Android users doesn't know a thing about libre
> software and use proprietary apps without worrying, most Ubuntu users
> expect somehow libre software to become the standard. Otherwise they
> would be simply using Windows or Android.
> 
> (https://youtu.be/y8FYtJcg4hs?t=35s)
> 
> 
> 
> 

Keep in mind that ZFS is both open source and copy-left. In fact, it's
closer to the GPL in nature than most open source licenses. This is not
a question of open vs. closed, aas no closed-source software is involved.

The SFC's opinion is basically that combining these two free and open
source licensed projects (ZFS and Linux) together in Ubuntu is not allowed.

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Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com