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1eda14cbcSMatt MacyThe Solaris Porting Layer, SPL, is a Linux kernel module which provides a
2*180f8225SMatt Macycompatibility layer used by the [OpenZFS](https://github.com/openzfs/zfs) project.
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4eda14cbcSMatt Macy# Installation
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6eda14cbcSMatt MacyThe latest version of the SPL is maintained as part of this repository.
7eda14cbcSMatt MacyOnly when building ZFS version 0.7.x or earlier must an external SPL release
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10eda14cbcSMatt Macy  * Version 0.7.x: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/spl/tree/spl-0.7-release
11eda14cbcSMatt Macy  * Version 0.6.5.x: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/spl/tree/spl-0.6.5-release
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13eda14cbcSMatt Macy# Release
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15eda14cbcSMatt MacyThe SPL is released under a GPLv2 license.
16eda14cbcSMatt MacyFor more details see the NOTICE and THIRDPARTYLICENSE files; `UCRL-CODE-235197`
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