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Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> I see no reason for this conversation to continue, ad nauseum,
> for the remainder of eternity. OpenSolaris is under CDDL.
> GPL is incompatible with any license that is not a sublicensable
> subset of GPL. That wasn't by accident -- it is the intention
> of the FSF that all software be under the GPL. The FSF will not
> change that regardless of how many times the GPL is revised.
They (FSF) should at least update it to address the common situation of
linking with libraries for which source is available under licenses even
the FSF considers free, but not GPL-compatible. The present situation is
fairly stupid and self-defeating.
> OpenSolaris will never be under GPL because GPL is incompatible
> with Solaris. OpenSolaris does not need to be compatible with
> GPL because it is an operating system platform, not an application
> that uses other GPL code.
It would be useful if OpenSolaris' libc were compatible with the GPL.
Given that there's no BSD or CDDL replacement for gcc, it's going to
become a problem for people who want a distribution that has source code
to everything.
Because of the vagueness of the GPL's exception for system libraries,
it's not exactly obvious under what circumstances (or if) it would be
legal to distribute a GPL'd program, such as gcc, linked with the CDDL'd
libc. That's a fairly important problem.
> End of discussion. If you are interested in working on a CDDL
> project, then please participate in OpenSolaris. If you are not
> interested in anything other than GPL, then please leave now.
> Pissing in the wind is not a collaborative activity.
Some people have legitimate interest in both OpenSolaris and GPL
software. It's a concern to those of us who do that there seems to be
conflict.
Personally, I really wish Sun had used a BSD license. It has the very
great virtue of being intelligible to people other than lawyers. Neither
the CDDL nor the GPL fits that description.
- --
---Nathan
"If Tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be
in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." James Madison
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