Hi, ..this Groklaw thread suggests we cannot do a GPL port to Sun's new OpenSolaris, as we risk lawsuits:
> Hold yer horses > > Authored by: ctrawick on Wednesday, January 26 2005 @ 09:56 AM EST > > Don't go browsing uspto.gov quite yet. They do NOT appear to be > actually releasing it to the FOSS community, despite the hype. > > And I quote: "By releasing the OpenSolaris OS platform under the CDDL, > the open source community will immediately gain access to 1,600 active > Sun patents for all aspects of operating system technologies that > encompass features ranging from kernel technology and file systems to > network management, to name a few." > > If I'm correctly reading between the lines here, they're NOT opening > up those patents to all FOSS. Only OpenSolaris (f)OSS. Until I see > some sort of clarification out of our sometimes-friend Sun, I'm not > touching this. > IBM went a lot further by releasing a legally binding patent license > laying out to the world the precise terms of use for their IP. I'll > venture to demand that Sun do the same. Otherwise, this is no better > than a bait-and-switch patent trap. > > Can you imagine one open source project suing another for IP > infringement? Scary. http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=2005012601161059&title=Hold%20yer%20horses&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=266577#c266612 > > This is dangerous stuff > > > Authored by: Ed Freesmeyer on Wednesday, January 26 2005 @ 10:35 AM > EST > > > I agree with the parent, but would go one step further. I'm reposting > an observation that I also posted yesterday. > > Because Sun is not opening their patents to the entire open source > community under any license, anyone who works on CDDL code and/or > reviews the Sun patents is now tainted and opens their project/company > up to "willful" patent infringement litagation as opposed to > "unknowing" litagation. > Unless you will be working on OpenSolaris exclusively for the rest of > your career or expect to release all your future code under the CDDL > exclusively, it would be smart to *NOT* read, review, or read reviews > of any of Sun's so-called "released" patents in order to avoid > willfull patent infringement charges that Sun is in no way prohibited > from filing against any open source license but CDDL. THIS INCLUDES > GPL !!! http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=2005012601161059&title=This+is+dangerous+stuff&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=266612#c266653 ..more at: http://groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050126023359386 -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
