1The Solaris Porting Layer, SPL, is a Linux kernel module which provides a 2compatibility layer used by the [OpenZFS](https://github.com/openzfs/zfs) project. 3 4# Installation 5 6The latest version of the SPL is maintained as part of this repository. 7Only when building ZFS version 0.7.x or earlier must an external SPL release 8be used. These releases can be found at: 9 10 * Version 0.7.x: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/spl/tree/spl-0.7-release 11 * Version 0.6.5.x: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/spl/tree/spl-0.6.5-release 12 13# Release 14 15The SPL is released under a GPLv2 license. 16For more details see the NOTICE and THIRDPARTYLICENSE files; `UCRL-CODE-235197` 17