Joerg Schilling wrote: > Joseph Kowalski <jek3 at sun.com> wrote: > >> Correct me if I misunderstand you, but my mother (to use a previous >> analogy) doesn't >> care about the license. Even the developer of application on Solaris >> doesn't care about >> this licensing. Only we, the developers of OpenSolaris, care about this >> (or others who >> want to steal\h\h\h\h\hreuse our code). >> >> Who are we designing the system for? > > If some people like to crete an embedded system that is based on OpenSolaris, > it may be important to be able to have a basic system that is purely based > on "free enough" software like CDDLd software. > > In former times, Sun did not even allow the GNU toolchain to be used in order > to compile Solaris. This was too much, but it still makes sense to have a > working system that could be setup without GNU software.
I don't believe "allow" is the correct word here at all. IIRC it was more about "didn't work with GNU tools and was only tested with our compiler". I don't believe Sun ever made a statement that you must not use the GNU tools to build Solaris. -- Darren J Moffat
