>You brought up a very interesting point.  Since on a file-by-file basis, CDDL 
>is essentially the s
ame as GPL, I am now wondering whether it might a good idea (at least for 
sanity purposes) to separ
ate the Solaris/OpenSolaris kernel into two parts: the GPL part and the 
binary-only part.  Eventual
ly, the GPL part of the OpenSolaris kernel should be extensive enough such that 
a customer will fee
l comfortably protected (i.e., s/he will feel not being held hostage by Sun).  
Sun still gets to co
ntrol the development of the GPL'ed portion of the Solaris/OpenSolaris kernel, 
to the same extent a
s, or expectedly more so than, Linus does wrt the Linux kernel.


The GPL doesn't allow this.  End of discussion.

Casper
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