>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. > >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. > >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.
Thanks Roy for injecting so much sanity in the discussion. (And sorry for not mentioning Apache as a non-GPL project) Perhaps this needs to be featured somewhere (albeit not prominently: things OpenSolaris is not do not deserve much advertising; but since this discussion seems to pop up all the time, it might be useful to have some location to point to; though repeating your mail seems adequate for this purpose whenever the GPL comes up) Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
