On 15/09/2007, Roger Marquis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > That's a valid answer, but one that needs to be in the FAQ because you > > know it is going to be asked. People who have heard of Linux and "GPL" > > will want to know. > > Can't imagine any scenario where this question would be asked with any > frequency, so would recommend against putting it into the FAQ..
If you look at almost any open source project's page, the license is either on the front page (as a link) or in the FAQ. > Most people using OpenSolaris, as with other Unix and Linux distributions, > do not care about the license. The few of us that do will read the license, > or its preamble, directly. Developers and people wanting to make their own distribution care a lot about licenses, which is why it is important to know. It sucks that we do have to care, and that there isn't a "one true license," but until that day I see nothing wrong with having it there. > If and when Sun rolls OpenSolaris into SunSolve this should be covered in > depth there. Why would OpenSolaris be rolled into SunSolve and why would a community issue be addressed on a Sun official website? Community issues should be addressed on the community website. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
