> On Nov 17, 2014, at 8:47 AM, Gabriele Bulfon via illumos-discuss > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently stumbled upon a ridiculous situation. > > For some reasons we need to setup some XStreamOS distros onto a provider's > VMware infrastructure. > The provider obviously includes windows and linux machines out of the box. > Once we asked them to have our own illumos distro, they required us various > informations. > The reason is that they usually buy a valid windows license for you, or buy a > valid linux license for you if required. > In this case they were looking for illumos/XStreamOS licensing, checking not > to get into trouble with anyone. > > Guess what? They want to talk with Oracle and check if they can let us do it. > > ???????????????????!!!!!!! > > Did you ever have a problem like this??? > How should I face this? > What should I expect Oracle to answer them?
They are clearly idiots. 1. You cannot “buy” a Linux license. You *can* buy a license for some specific Linux distros (RedHat), but Linux itself is free. GPL. 2. illumos distros should generally just provide a copy of the CDDL. For OI, there are a few other license bits (OSBL, etc.) I believe there is a single file that most distros build that contain the sum of all the copyright data on the system — I’m not sure what XStreamOS does here, as I don’t know its build process. 3. Oracle will almost certainly not respond at all. They’ve never done anything that might possibly construed as acknowledging the mere existence of any of the illumos or OpenSolaris derivatives. (That said, if you *do* hear *anything* back from them, I’d really like to know!) - Garrett > > Thanx as always, > Gabriele. > illumos-discuss | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/22003744-9012f59c> | > Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com/> ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
