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? > 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. > Other than stirring up another painful and ultimately irrelevant GPLv3 > thread, I'm not sure what goal you have in mind here. I think folks should know me well enough by now to know that that is not my purpose. My main question / concern here is two things: 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. 2) That something used to manage instances of a CDDL-based operating system will be licensed under a more restrictive license. Unfortunately, it is likely we will have to wait until the release happens to get a better picture; but that's what makes me despise press articles without much substance. They vaguely suggest certain things that may or may not be true and leave a lot open to interpretation. -- 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]
