On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:32:35PM -0600, Ean Schuessler wrote: > I'm here at ApacheCon with Simon Phipps and he said that Sun would be > "delighted to help Debian resolve the RPC licensing problems". He wanted to > note that the Free Software Definition did not exist at the time when Sun > released to the community and they couldn't have predicted that it would > violate the DFSG. Considering when it was released, its very open. He also > noted that Sun hasn't pursued any legal action in all this time and that is a > good indicator of their position on the whole thing. > > All we need to do is get Simon a diff of what changes we need made and he > will help us make the arrangements. In short, Sun is all for Debian keeping > the RPC code in libc6 or the kernel and will do what is necessary to make it > happen. > > -- > Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315
Please, remember that portmap has some of that code too. Best Regards, Cascardo.
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