On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 16:22 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 16:49 +0000, Darren J Moffat wrote: > > > GPL as a standalone driver written to the Solaris DDI shouldn't > > > be a problem as long as it stays under the GPL. However there isn't > > > much change of that becoming part of the official OpenSolaris source > > > tree unless someone discovers how to combine GPL and CDDL sources > > > (one being project based the other being file based) without > > > breaking the licenses. > > > > And this brings an interesting topic. Whether GPL-licensed OpenSolaris > > driver could be legally shipped as a separated package within an > > OpenSolaris-based distribution like NexentaOS? > > Why do you still believe that there is a difference between things > distributed together with OpenSolaris and things distributed separately?
You removed my other statement from original e-mail: """My wild guess is that it would be OK.""" i.e. as I said, I do believe that it would be OK. i.e. no difference. :-) The only limitation for such a driver would be the fact that it will never become part of ON bits. Which is totally OK (taking in account of existence and stability of Solaris DDI interfaces). As a side note: for Linux kernel this code "separation" will *never* work since Linux and its development team doesn't care about such a drivers. Maintaining separated drivers for Linux kernel is extremely painful work and requires a lot of workers (examples VMware drivers) which small OSS project just can not afford. -- Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
