On 15/11/2007, Simon Phipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 15, 2007, at 11:40, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2203486/sun-tiptoes-gplv3 > > > > According to VNUNet, Sun plans on a piece of server virtualisation > > software as GPLv3. > > > > The article is also not clear as to whether xVM Server, a "trimmed > > Solaris kernel, allowing guest operating systems to benefit from > > popular features such as the ZFS file system, network virtualisation > > or DTrace, which allows developers to optimise application > > performance", will be licensed in the same way. > > > > How will this affect our community as nascent distributions to emerge > > thanks to tools like Distribution Constructor? > > > > Will these parts also be available under the CDDL to ensure that > > OpenSolaris-related components continue to follow our community's > > choice of licensing? > > I gather the part that will go GPLv3 is just the xVM Ops Center, > which is seperate from the other, OpenSolaris-derived code which > remains CDDL-licensed (or, in the case of Xen, GPLv2). OpenSolaris is > already embracing a wide range of licensing. All the detail I have > been able to find so far is at http://openxvm.org/
A wide-range of licensing has been embraced, to be sure. However, that has only applied so far to 3rd party or non-OS pieces so far. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
