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Then, theoretically, how about distributing the zfs-on-linux source code with the NAS and present a button in the web interface "Install ZFS" which pops up a big "this will install a non-GPL-compliant module" message which everyone just clicks "OK" on and we're done?

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This is essentially what DKMS does and how Debian is shipping ZFS. I can only imagine that Ubuntu wants to make it easier that (perhaps it would be hard to have the installer support ZFS as root filesystem without having the binary ZFS module - you'd have to ship a full compiler toolchain as part of the installer?)

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