On 15/11/2007, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Walker writes: > > For example, if I wanted to take the source code of the hypervisor > > manager and add bits and pieces of OpenSolaris code to it; I could > > not. Even though it comes from Sun and is OS-related in my view. > > As best I can see, there seems to be no such conflict. The whole > point of GPLv3 is to allow for exceptions that make it compatible with > other file-by-file licenses.
Sun will have to add that exception of course, and I hope they do. Thanks for the reminder though. > > Not only that, if you go to the link openvxm project page at > > dev.java.net, it claims the license is GPLv2: > > > > https://openxvm.dev.java.net/ > > > > It is things like these that make my head spin a bit. > > I think that helps point out that this was just another confusing > press article, nothing more or less. > > I'd expect that there are enough real problems without driving out of > our way to invent new ones. I think for now I'll just view this one as "not fully researched press article that should be ignored until the project is released." Cheers, -- 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]
