Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: > On 9/27/06, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Given this sort of perspective being rolled out by the FSF and similar >> things being said by members of the Debian project I am wondering >> what value >> the CDDL has anymore. It seems to be fuel for a funeral pyre built >> by those >> that would criticize the CDDL and no one can argue the impact of public >> opinion. Turning a blind eye is hardly a reasonable approach here. >> >> Is there validity to these statements being printed by the FSF or is >> this >> all simply more FUD that no one responds to ? >> >> Dennis > > > A similar comment is made about the apache licence in that same web > page and apache is still the most widely deployed web server in linux, > and about the MPL; this is getting really boring. Can we quit bitching > about licences for a while? i'm sorry but if the debian people do not > want to use cddl'd software its their loss since that means there is > no star or opengrok (among others) for them; and the best way to fight > FUD is with results anyway > > nacho
Frequently just exactly those "boring" licensing issues were (and partially still are) the reasons, why certain "results" could not be produced/published properly. Not GPLv.[n] versus CDDL, but even worse: Only and alone the re-distribution of closed binaries. Why did it take 15 months to open something up for re-distribution, that could legally be re-distributed as patch for many years starting in the nineties (though nobody responsible at SUNW appeared to actually know that) ?? http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=14410&tstart=0 versus http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=13133&tstart=105 versus "did I already find the solution ?? Did/does it exist for years? http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/cc/documentation/ss11/mr/READMEs/c++.html ""If you want to use the shared-library version of libCstd and/or libiostream you have two options: 1. Distribute the SUNWlibC patch with your product, or 2. require your customers to download the latest SUNWlibC patch from a Sun web site, such as http://www.sunsolve.sun.com. The patch is free, and is freely re-distributable"" The "freely redistributable patch" from "option 1." does include all the *desired* libraries, plus more. What are we then actually talking about?!"" You as a Sun-OpenSolaris user may not feel you have any problem with licensing. Aha. M. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
