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Comment by gnuplustoejam | original | FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued
[−]gnuplustoejam · 2026-08-30 Sun 04:52 UTC · link
Doesn't this violate the whole spirit of the GPL? He's shocked that the usual suspects are ripping off GPL code. Tale as old as time.

It's like those SOHO router vendors that release incomprehensible tarballs of their GPL components; lotsa luck building it.

If I'm paying for closed-source ZFS, I'll go with the real thing and buy a Solaris license.

[−]voakbasda · 2026-08-30 Sun 05:12 UTC · link
Not just the spirit. GPL requires build scripts along with the code.
[−]alphager · 2026-08-30 Sun 08:47 UTC · link
Truenas core is BSD, not GPL.
[−]EffrafaxOfWug · 2026-08-30 Sun 10:58 UTC · link
They seem to have stopped publishing the TrueNAS scale build scripts aswell.

I think scale is also BSD licensed (atleast the gui and middleware)