Comment by gsich

>- Using it opens you up to the threat of lawsuits from Oracle. Given history, this is a real threat. (This is one that should be high for Linus but not for me - there is no conceivable reason that Oracle would want to threaten me with a lawsuit.)

No. Distributing (ie. precompiled distro with ZFS) will. You are free to run any software on your machine as you so desire.