On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 09:33, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> Casper H. Dik wrote:
>
> <I think Roy is merely pointing out that "OpenSolaris should be under
> GPL" discussions and there derivatives ("CDDL is better than GPL",
> "GPL is better than CDDL", "GPL is not free", "CDDL is not free")
> are pointless and have no place on opensolaris-discuss because the
> license situations is not going to change.>
>
>
> I am not so sure.
>
> A couple of days ago, Sun relicensed OpenOffice.org under LPGL, thus
> officially RIPped Sun's own SISSL.
That might be slightly miss leading to some people if you don't
know the fully history. The OpenOffice.org source was dual licensed
LGPL/SISSL from the beginning Sun just deprecated SISSL so it is own
only LGPL. A subtle difference yes but an important one.
--
Darren J Moffat
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