Comment # 3 on bug 1218283 from Miroslav Beneš

(In reply to Dominik Heidler from comment #2)
> Upstream hinted in the bug report that they try to reach out to the kernel
> people but it could take months to change anything if it helps at all.

It takes just one email and the viewpoint of arm64 kernel maintainers would be
known in a matter of days (or weeks given there are holidays in Europe now).

> If I understood it correctly Upstream wrote in the referened issue that on
> x86 they have reimplemented some of the functionality on their own to
> prevent usage of the GPL symbol. But this tool a lot of time and work.
> 
> Other distros (at lease some NixOS packagers commented on the issue) have
> solved this particular issue by reverting the referenced patch in the kernel,
> which shouldn't be a legal issue, as it is just restoring an already
> released version of the code.

But the context has changed. Now we know that the general policy and the
intention is to have those symbols used by GPL code only.

Others may feel differently but I think this needs to resolved with the
upstream maintainers first, or on the ZFS side.