Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..this Groklaw thread suggests we cannot do a GPL port to Sun's new > OpenSolaris, as we risk lawsuits:
No, and the reason is stated here: >> Because Sun is not opening their patents to the entire open source >> community under any license, anyone who works on CDDL code and/or >> reviews the Sun patents is now tainted [...] "Porting to" OpenSolaris and "working on" OpenSolaris are two totally different topics. BTW: 1.) we get around 300 downloads of the Solaris package per _year_, 2.) I expect the sol8 package to run on sol9 and OpenSolaris as well. So why should be bother .... Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
