Hi All, Alex Ross wrote: >> What is the status of the CDDL/GPL licence incomatibilty?
> During the last couple months we talked to quite a few people in > the community. The consensus is that what seems to be an issue is in fact a > non-issue. We are on pretty solid ground here. Thanks for the quick replies, both to you and Erast. I've read http://ianmurdock.com/?p=278 this too, and I think I got the point. Basically, if Gnu/Solaris was illegal, e.g. running GPL apt-get on Solaris, then it would probably be the same illegal to run GIMP on Windows.... or Emacs on whatever Unix system RMS developed it. This is great! Unless you link some e.g. mouse drivers from Linux into Solaris kernel file, or you link some CDDL and GPL libraries together, to create the given executable, it is fine. As the libraries you link against are just the operating system components, which run the resulting executable. Like that Unix ran Emacs and Windows runs GTK+ or GIMP. I think it is legal to develop or run GPL applications on proprietary systems. (And Solaris is not even a proprietary system, just a different licensed Free Software.) http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CDDL Many thanks! Best regards, Ferenc _______________________________________________ GNU/Solaris Users mailing list [email protected]
