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by doublepg23·5d ago·view on hn ↗
> they consider ZFS "non–free" on par with the GPL

Why isn't it? The CDDL is basically the MPL, which in-turn is basically the LGPL.

The jihad against the GPL by FreeBSD and conveniently ignoring the CDDL being weak-copyleft was always ironic to me.

> and the devs probably haven't had one either

solene@ left and stated the filesystem as a supporting reason:

> I have grievances against OpenBSD file system. Every time OpenBSD crash, and it happens very often for me when using it as a desktop, it ends with file corrupted or lost files. This is just not something I can accept.

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-11-15-why-i-stopped-using...

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> The jihad against the GPL by FreeBSD and conveniently ignoring the CDDL being weak-copyleft was always ironic to me.

CDDL is not viral.

Honest question: Am I the only one bothered by the fact that this author puts her name absolutely everywhere on her posts? Feels very ego-trippy.