Sven Luther wrote: <So, depending on the distribution media (sun used to ship gcc as a separate CD in the old days), you just need a separate CD iso, or a separate repository or ftp archive, or whatever. I believe it is even possible to have it under a different subdir in the same ftp server, like debian has main and non-free for example.>
You brought up a very interesting point. Since on a file-by-file basis, CDDL is essentially the same as GPL, I am now wondering whether it might a good idea (at least for sanity purposes) to separate the Solaris/OpenSolaris kernel into two parts: the GPL part and the binary-only part. Eventually, the GPL part of the OpenSolaris kernel should be extensive enough such that a customer will feel comfortably protected (i.e., s/he will feel not being held hostage by Sun). Sun still gets to control the development of the GPL'ed portion of the Solaris/OpenSolaris kernel, to the same extent as, or expectedly more so than, Linus does wrt the Linux kernel. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
