GNU Watch wrote:
> I have heard nothing but broken promises from Ian Murdock and other big whigs
> at sun saying that opensolaris will be released under the GPLv3. Many
> developers dont want to invest time to opensolaris until it is under the
> GPLv3 because the CDDL doesnt protect users and developers freedoms as well.
> Will this ever happen? and when? I started contributing to Opensolaris
> because i thought it was going to be gpl'd in the near future like what was
> promised from sun. I honestly feel let down by sun because empty promises and
> murdock who abandoned debian.
OpenSolaris cannot be released under the GPL as long as it
depends on closed binaries in core areas like the kernel
and libc - doing so would make it less free as no one could
then distribute a working system.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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