Today I pondered something: Proxmox and others boast native ZFS integration as one of their strengths. Many Proxmox features rely on ZFS's unique capabilities, and many setups are built around them. If Oracle were to send a cease and desist tomorrow, how would the situation unfold?
@stefano According to this reddit thread from a year ago, that seems unlikely. OpenZFS is built on Sun's ZFS which was released under a permissive-ish license (CDDL) which includes a patent grant.
Linus can't merge it into the mainline linux tree until he gets an explicit grant from Oracle that it won't cause GPL issues for the kernel, but that doesn't stop anyone else from using it or integrating it.
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