Shawn Walker writes: > On 15/11/2007, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Shawn Walker writes: > > > 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. > > > > How would a separate management application be considered an "OS > > piece?" > > Because it manages OS' instances?
That doesn't seem right to me. All sorts of things are used to manage systems with OpenSolaris-based code on them, including commercial products from companies such as CA, VMWare, and Veritas, as well as various network management utilities. Heck, SX comes free with a copy of webmin, which can be used to manage an OpenSolaris system, and that's not under CDDL. > > Aren't other common Sun things used with Solaris and OpenSolaris (such > > as Java and the SPARC CPUs) available under other licenses? Do they > > affect anything about OpenSolaris? > > Java and SPARC CPUs aren't used to manage OS instances. Java is used to manage all sorts of OS features, including the DHCP server integrated in OpenSolaris. It's also used as the installer for SX. I don't think that argument holds up. > 1) The article is not clear about what will be licensed with what; and > as usual shoddy journalism is at its finest with the continued > implications that OpenSolaris will be GPLv3. I wasn't able to read it that way, but if you were, I still don't see the point in posting the resulting complaint here, especially given the history with GPLv3 wars on this list. So, I have to ask again: in commenting on a bit of journalism that appears to be unrelated to OpenSolaris itself, exactly what are you expecting to accomplish here? > 2) That something used to manage instances of a CDDL-based operating > system will be licensed under a more restrictive license. I fail to see the point. Is CDDL-based software less useful because there's a compatible management application out there that's not using CDDL? I don't see how that could be true. How is OpenSolaris affected? -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
