Shawn Walker wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Stephen Lau <stevel at opensolaris.org> > wrote: > >> Shawn Walker wrote: >> >> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I was hoping that someone could forward the following message on to >>> relevant parties at Sun to ensure some of the concerns raised are >>> addressed: >>> >>> >>> >> http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2008/04/24/organic-vs-non-organic-open-source/#comment-371 >> >>> In short, the poster worries that: >>> >>> * The OpenSolaris Binary License doesn't allow benchmarking >>> >>> >>> >> He's not talking about the OpenSolaris Binary License - he's talking about >> the SXCE/DE EULA. The point of confusion probably surrounds his >> misunderstanding that OpenSolaris != SXCE which, as we all know, is fairly >> common. :-P >> > > No, he really is talking about the OpenSolaris binary license: > > "I stand corrected on the Open Solaris license. It doesn't explicitly > prohibit benchmarks, although according to the OpenSolaris Binary > License, the only permitted use is "reproduce and use internally the > Software for the purposes of developing or running an OpenSolaris > distribution". I'm not entirely sure benchmarking is considered > "running an OpenSolaris distribution", but that's a question for the > lawyers, I guess." > Ah, my mistake - I hadn't seen that update; I was thinking of his initial comments where he had misused "OpenSolaris license" to refer to SXCE's license prohibition on publicly publishing benchmark results.
-steve -- stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net
