Having played with Belenix for 4-5 days, I decided to have a look at the internals of the CD. The first stop was obviously licencing.
Of the dozen plus licences placed in the Belenix CD, the two of importance are the two solaris licences, the OPENSOLARIS.LICENCE and the OPENSOLARIS.BINARY.LICENCE. The OPENSOLARIS.LICENCE has no significant issues. This is the well published Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) available all over on the net. This IS quite cool ! Perhaps, more lax than even GPL. Hoping that my interpretation is correct ! OTOH, the binary licence is somewhat restrictive (e.g. "You may not rent, lease, lend or encumber Software" and some other multi-line sentences, implicating 'conditions apply' which I could not understand clearly). While I do some more 'googling' and 'sunning' on these issues, it would be nice if anybody can throw some light on the following: a) Which all components of Navada or Belenix come under the OpenSolaris 'binary' licence. b) Are crucial things like kernel, essential C libs, ZFS, dtrace and other 'goodies' affected ? c) What are the exact implications of these binary licence components within OpenSolaris/ Belinix etc ? Sorry for poing such naive questions, but genuinely, I am a 0-ist on OpenSolaris and ALL such legal issues ... Bish
