James Carlson wrote: > Kyle McDonald writes: > >> When this GNU tool chain is available in /usr/bin on Solaris, What is >> going to stop Sun-original development from depending on it? >> > > At least two things will: > > - Depending on a GPLv2 object (as opposed to merely being bundled > with it) generally forces one to adopt a GPLv2 license. That > limits the possible audience. > > I'm aware that linking, and API's, etc. are restricted by licenses.
I didn't think that calling external programs with exec, or from scripts qualified as something that would require GPLv2 licenseing. If it's like you say, was it jist that Apache and Perl have non GPLv2 licenses that allowed parts of Soalris to depend on them? > - A project cannot import interfaces that have stability levels > incompatible with the intended usage. Thus, the mostly "Volatile" > interfaces over in /usr/gnu can't be used outside of that > consolidation without explicit ARC approval. > > I see. -Kyle
