[gorkonsine]

Which one will? You can't bring a lawsuit unless you have standing. Does Oracle want to sue? I kinda doubt it: if they did, they would have done so by now. Is the Linux Foundation going to sue? Why would they?

Who exactly would stand to gain from keeping ZFS out of Linux, and would be willing to spend a ton of money on legal fees to do this?

[cyphar]

> Does Oracle want to sue? I kinda doubt it: if they did, they would have done so by now.

What makes you say that? It's a very common tactic to give people "enough rope to hang themselves", where you intentionally delay suing someone in the hopes that more people will infringe so you can settle for more money. This happened with the LZ4 patent trolls for example (where they were suing people for using GIF files, and they waited several years after their patent was filed before suing people).

Not to mention that copyright lasts _120 years_ at the moment. Unless you wait until 2125 until you redistribute ZoL, you cannot ever be sure that Oracle won't sue you.

> Who exactly would stand to gain from keeping ZFS out of Linux

Oracle. They were the main btrfs developers (and still are), and since they no longer have any of the old ZFS engineers they would (rather ironically) probably consider a viable ZFS-on-Linux distribution to affect their bottom-line.

[throwaway2048]

I think relying on Oracle to not be a maximum rent-extracting machine is a very poor plan.

[jimktrains2]

I meant most companies are risk adverse and wont use a product if there are open legal questions about it.