begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:46:32AM -0800: [snip] > Does anyone know what license this release is under, and if it's a FSF > approved license?
If you go to http://opensolaris.org, it tells you. CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License). It's OSI-approved. I very much doubt it's FSF-approved, as it doesn't *seem* (from my quick reading) to constrain people from using CDDL-licensed code next to non-CDDL-licensed code. (Plus the FSF seems to strongly dislike Sun, too, as they're Evil Corporate Types and not Pure Academic Types.) > I'm not sure "full, free of cost access" is necessarily open source. > Maybe it just means you can read it free. Compile it too. "Expect to see buildable Solaris code here in Q2 2005." > If Sun has opened its source, then those nice Sun goodies I keep hearing > about can be incorporated in Linux. Otherwise, it means very little. A lot of those Sun goodies depend a lot of the Sun kernel, I suspect, and will not be easy to port. Drivers, on the other hand, are probably easier to port, so OpenSolaris will probably show greater improvement, unless the Linux community resents the introduction of Yet Another Player, and refuses to play nice. So it might be a good thing, or it might polarize the open-source community. -Stewart "Well, polarize it *more*." Stremler -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
