Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 14/09/2007, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Shawn Walker wrote:
>>> A few more questions though:
>>>
>>> "What license does it use?"
>> "All of them!" It's a distro after all, and like BSD & Linux
>> distros contains bits under GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, Artistic,
>> and all the other usual licenses. It's a close call whether
>> more of the OpenSolaris code is GPLv2 (GNOME, Firefox, GNU
>> utilities, etc.) or CDDL (most of ON, NWS, etc.) at this point.
>
> Before I forget, one big thing that we do need out of Sun's legal department:
>
> once there is a distribution constructor, there needs to be a very
> clear and concise FAQ about the CDDL and how it can be combined with
> other licenses so that people making their own distributions can be
> confident they are doing "the right thing". It should be general
> advice of course with the disclaimer that they seek their own legal
> counsel, but I think it would be inexcusable to leave people without
> any guidance.
IMHO it is a bug to need a FAQ for a license, but I don't think there is
a legal category in bugs.opensolaris.org :-)
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/licensing_faq/
-- richard
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