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		blibble on Sept 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser p... it seems quite clear ZFS is not a derived work of the Linux kernel, given it was developed for and extracted from Solaris, and that same code works on FreeBSD and Illumunos

vetinari on Sept 13, 2021 [–]

Well, obviously, since it is not derived work, how would it know how to interface with internal symbols and use internal defines of the linux kernel?

It would not... unless it becomes derived work.

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