On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 08:06:42PM -0400, Richard M. Stallman wrote: > Would it be too much to kindly ask the FSF to consider amending the > GPL (in light of the forthcoming GPL V3) to allow compatibility with > other open source licenses which may not be GPL derivatives, but are > otherwise considered ethical ? > > The GNU GPL is meant as a free software license. Most, but not all, > open source licenses are also free software licenses. > > We're going to make GPL 3 compatible with a wider range of other > free software licenses, but the CDDL is too far away. It has > substanmtial requirements not in the GPL. To weaken the GPL > to the point where it would allow the imposition of such requirements > would stretch it all out of shape.
Hi Richard, ... Do you have some kind of further analysis of the CDDL somewhere ? Mmm, silly me, i guess i will find it on the FSF page, will have a look. That said, am i right in thnking that the kernel/userland interface is of the kind that doesn't cause derivative work considerations ? I mean most of the userland runs as well on linux, and the interface between it and the opensolaris kernels is clearly defines, so it would be no problem running a glibc based userland on top of an opensolaris kernel, even though the CDDL and the GPL are incompatible ? Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
