On 18/09/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I suppose it depends on who you ask. The short version is that you can > > port a driver to Solaris if you want and it is generally well accepted > > that you can distribute the source code for that. > > The problems of such code in general is that it is not usable in genral. > For this problem, it is always better to start with code under a less > restirctive license (e.g. BSD). > > > What is still under question is whether you can distribute binaries, > > and I (personally) believe you can because of the operating system > > exception contained within the GPLv2. I don't think it can be > > distributed as part of the OS (alongside), but I do believe it can be > > distributed separately. > > Ths OS exception has a different background: > > If you distribute binaries, it is the intention (although it may not be > written > down in correct court english) of the GPL that the publisher of binaries needs > to distribute everything that is needed to re-create the binary. The OS > exception allows to omit things that usually are part of the OS.
Right, and one would think that a kernel and its components are usually part of the OS :) -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
