On 3/9/06, Bill Rushmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Darren J Moffat wrote: > > > > Basically I'm saying it isn't that easy you must consult a real > > lawyer. We inside Sun have to consult a lawyer every time we > > want to add any free/open source software into a Sun product. > > That is completely unrealistic for the typical open source contributor. > They are gracious enough to put in their own effort now you expect them to > hire a lawyer? What will really happen is that the developer is going to
Quite unrealistic. What would be nice is some sort of FAQ, possibly on the Device Drivers community site, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread. My pre-post searching was on the difficult side, as keywords like "GPL", "CDDL" and "driver" turned up many, many uselss results. > My suggestion to Eric is to just contact the author like he thought about > already and go from there. I think I will do that. Rich's post about not being able to GPL magic numbers or algorithms seems reasonable to me, but I want to do things right. -- Eric Enright _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
