>>>>> "Liz" == Linux Weekly News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Liz> When you say "heavily based", do you believe they have taken
Liz> actual code from the blackdown port? Is the blackdown port
Liz> GPL (which would make such borrowing illegal)?
No, Sun's licencing prevents code from being GPL'd - all code remains
the property of SMI. The licence does allow the distribution of diffs
but does not require it.
IANAL
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Stephen (who should read this group more often)
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