Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-04-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Michael Pobega wrote: From what I remember, OpenSolaris is distributed under the CDDL license[0]. The license is actually written by Sun, and according to the Wikipedia article The [FSF] considers it a free license incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL). I guess this means that

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-04-03 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Mike McCarty dies 03/04/2007 hora 20:19: AIUI, BSD is not compatible with GPL. Well, the FSF thinks it is. And says so on its website. At least if you're talking about the FreeBSD licence, aka 2-clauses BSD licence, or the modified BSD licence, aka 3-clauses BSD licence. The original

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-04-03 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:12:38AM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote: Scribit Mike McCarty dies 03/04/2007 hora 20:19: AIUI, BSD is not compatible with GPL. Well, the FSF thinks it is. And says so on its website. At least if you're talking about

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-04-03 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Michael Pobega dies 03/04/2007 hora 23:39: AIUI, BSD is not compatible with GPL. [Debian's social contract] says BSD is DFSG compatible. Which doesn't mean it's GPL compatible. Correctively, Pierre -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-04-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:26:17 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: The CDDL (used by OpenSolaris) is a license that is accepted as doubtlessly free by the OSS community. ... but GPL incompatible: From

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-04-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:07:47 -0400, Celejar wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:30:09 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:14:34AM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: From time to time I grab a diferent OS to install and try my hands at it. This

[OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-03-30 Thread Bruno Buys
From time to time I grab a diferent OS to install and try my hands at it. This time was OpenSolaris. The thing is, at some point in the install, OpenSolaris throws a license at my face that doesn't seem open at all. I can run the software, but I can't redistribute, copy, etc. I am no law

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-03-30 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:14:34AM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: From time to time I grab a diferent OS to install and try my hands at it. This time was OpenSolaris. The thing is, at some point in the install, OpenSolaris throws a license at my face that doesn't seem open at all. I can run the

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-03-30 Thread Nick Demou
2007/3/30, Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... the Wikipedia article The [FSF] considers it a free license incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL). I guess this means that although it is free, it isn't free under GPL standards No, GPL compatibility is defined by the FSF, as:

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-03-30 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruno Buys wrote: From time to time I grab a diferent OS to install and try my hands at it. This time was OpenSolaris. The thing is, at some point in the install, OpenSolaris throws a license at my face that doesn't seem open at all. I can run the

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-03-30 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/30/07, Bruno Buys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From time to time I grab a diferent OS to install and try my hands at it. This time was OpenSolaris. The thing is, at some point in the install, OpenSolaris throws a license at my face that doesn't seem open at all. I can run the software, but I

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-03-30 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:30:09 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:14:34AM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: From time to time I grab a diferent OS to install and try my hands at it. This time was OpenSolaris. The thing is, at some point in the install,

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-03-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
From time to time I grab a diferent OS to install and try my hands at it. This time was OpenSolaris. The thing is, at some point in the install, OpenSolaris throws a license at my face that doesn't seem open at all. I can run the software, but I can't redistribute, copy, etc. I am no law

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-03-30 Thread Bruno Buys
Joerg Schilling wrote: From time to time I grab a diferent OS to install and try my hands at it. This time was OpenSolaris. The thing is, at some point in the install, OpenSolaris throws a license at my face that doesn't seem open at all. I can run the software, but I can't redistribute, copy,

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-03-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: The CDDL (used by OpenSolaris) is a license that is accepted as doubtlessly free by the OSS community. ... but GPL incompatible: From http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) This is