> On Wed 09/27/06 at 16:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Nils Nieuwejaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Wed 09/27/06 at 15:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > > >> > > >Given how much time and effort the FSF spends bitching about other >> licenses >> > > >being incompatible with GPL, isn't it obvious that the GPL is buggy? >> > > >Instead of modifying all the other Open Source licenses to work >> around the >> > > >GPL's bugs, clearly the onus should be on the FSF to fix their broken >> > > >license. >> > > >> > > It seems that that is precisely what they are doing. >> > >> > So why do we keep having these endless CDDL/GPL discussions here? >> >> Because people would expect a public reaction from Sun that does not seem >> to happen. > > We have a reaction: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/licensing_faq/ > > License wars are religious and never-ending. Trying to issue a new > 'reaction' every time Stallman clears his throat is pointless. We're not > going to convince him (or the GPL Believers) of anything. > > In addition, if we're constantly playing defense against GPLers' > accusations, it suggests that we have something to be defensive about. We > don't. We have an Open Source license - full stop. If the GPL doesn't > play well with our Open Source license, that's an issue for the GPLers to > fix. > > Nils
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris I simply changed that. dc _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
