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/ S. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
