>But the whole press_world (and readers/communities) will continue to
>bitch OpenSolaris, if it is not - somehow - licensed under GPL.n
>Whether anybody (who isn't a lawyer) understands the details, or not.

That's what I don't agree with; they'll bit it's not under the GPL
and then they'll bitch it's not under GPLv2.  (The one true GPL)
Let them bitch.

>Remember XFree vs. Xorg: 
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFree86#Licensing_controversy
>Question: Which distribution of whatever UNIX/lin-UX has not moved to Xorg?
>They all have neglected XFree ...

Completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand; XFree86 added an
advertising clause; that is unacceptable to many.

It is kinda strange that the FSF feels so strongly about this;
afterall, after the terms and conditions they include the following in
the file COPYING:

  If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
  when it starts in an interactive mode:

     Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year  name of author
     Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
     This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
     under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.


Casper
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