>Well, remember the system library excpetion, which allowed sun to distribute >the gcc toolchain in the past, provided it is not on the same CD media as the >OS itself. This is a bit inconvenient and means you have to distribute gcc and >stuff from a separate source, but still works just fine for opensolaris.
If there's an issue distributing it on the same media, that would be news to many of us. Most commercial OS distributions ship with one or many tools licensed under the GPL and there was never an issue with that (modulo making the source code available). >Whatever is vague with it. You are allowed to link GPL code with system >libraries, if : > > 1) those system libraries are distributed as integral part of the OS. > 2) the GPLed code is not distributed as integral part of the OS, but > separatedly. What does "integral" mean here? Many GPL licensed things are shipped in the Solaris bundle; but you can "pkgrm" them or not "pkgadd" them so they're not an "integral" part of the OS. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
