The specific commercial use prevented would be modification of the source without redistribution.
Anyway, I received a reply from Theo: here it is, in all its glory. (Carated text mine) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ...They were hoping to have the support of the various BSD distributions, and > while there is some general knowledge of what FreeBSD, for instance, might > do with this project, FreeBSD does not care about freedom. They only care about market expansion. They'll merge non-free code into their repository any time they get a chance, as long as they can sell the concept the right way against people who disagree. They plan to do these things, and they will. Not because they are free. They are not a BSD project. They don't remember where BSD came from. > there is less understanding of OpenBSD's position on > the CDDL specifically, even after reading the policy page. Our policy page is very clear, and I think you are being disingenous. We will not *ever* merge CDDL code since it will make our codebase less free than it is now. We will not *ever* merge more new GPL code in places where we can write our own, since it makes our codebase less free than it is now. > It was > therefore thought that the best way to understand OpenBSD's thoughts on > the matter would be to ask your opinion on the subject, and to invite your > participation in the discussion. > [...List information omitted...] > We hope to see your thoughts on the thread. I don't have time to read the thread, nor will I participate in a thread controlled by a vendor that won't give us data sheets for chips they have sold in the past, but my statement is above. By the way, OpenSolaris does not run on the Sun v215. OpenBSD does. How Open is OpenSolaris if it does not even run on Sun's own hardware? Not very, I suppose. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ So I suppose that we now have the OpenBSD position; I guess they don't want the code. (Or to work with the FreeBSD team, or the OpenSolaris team.) I guess this answers the question, if not in the way that I expected. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
