Joerg Schilling writes: > > Whether Open Solaris is to develop the same sort of licensing fetish > > as some other open source project is, I believe, a matter for the CAB > > to determine, not an architectural matter. > > For the FreeBSD people, this is no fetish but the base for granting that > you are able to e.g. an embedded device could be created without the need > to publish all sources.
The choice of what you include (and why) is at least partly a distribution question. I agree with considering licenses and the force they apply to future projects, but only in the context of architecture: that is, if the licenses push other projects off the rails, then we have a problem. > The basic idea behind this FreeBSD decision should be discussed for > OpenSolaris > also before it would be too late. I agree, but please take it up with the CAB, not the ARC. I don't see how the ARC could make such a sweeping policy decision. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
