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.
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4# Installation
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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:
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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  
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13# Release
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15The SPL is released under a GPLv2 license.  
16For more details see the NOTICE and THIRDPARTYLICENSE files; `UCRL-CODE-235197`
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