Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I remember a long (several hours) discussion with Andy Tucker in September
> 2004.
> The results at that time have been:
>
> - It must not be the BSDl as the Solaris developers don't like this.
>
> - It cannot be the GPL because this would prevent "Sun Solaris" to be
> based on "Open Solaris".
>
> - It should not be dual licensed because people then may add (as done
> with OpenOffice) code that Sun cannot legally use and because it
> would weaken the patent provisions Sun likes to have.
I did forget an important fact:
Andy did say that it makes no sense to make the license artififially
incompatible to the GPL as any bigger invention (like e.g. dtrace) would
talk a long time for porting anyway and as the source is open, anyone could
start with a completely new implementation that only used the basic ideas.
In this case it would be even better if the original code was taken.
The only advantage Sun has is that Sun did initially write the code and thus
is earlier on the market...
And BTW: I am sure, Simon did exactly have this in mind when he did say that
the biggest problem for a DTrace port to Linux would be the different threading
model and not the different licenses.
Jörg
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