Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Brian Smith wrote:
>>> Or, is
>>> there some kind of rule that says that all Solaris functionality must be
>>> present without depending on any GNU-licensed software?
>> Nope, since most of our desktop functionality depends entirely on GNU
>> licensed software.
>
> Alan, you are missunderstanding Solaris.
>
> The basic OS (ON) should not depend on GPLd software. This is the same
> approach
> as the *BSD people use.
So the basic OS should also not have a libm math library? ON is not a whole
OS and never has been. ON by itself is not a useful system.
And while you may believe the GPL has no place there, that is not the policy
of Sun or OpenSolaris.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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