> Bob Palowoda writes: > > > But for people who want to write their own > software, > > > they are > > > forced to choose between GPL'ing their code or > paying > > > money to > > > TrollTech. > > > > > > > Mixing different licenses in Solaris and > OpenSolaris. Who would have > > thought that would ever happen. > > For those of us working on Solaris, it's no surprise. > We've had > oftware under many different licenses (including > GPLv2) as part of > Solaris for a long time -- well before Open Solaris > ever existed. > > The conflict here is about _forcing_ future projects > to use a > particular license because they must link to a GPL'd > library, and > whether that's really appropriate. At least in the > past, we've > avoided this as much as is possible, and for obvious > reasons. It's a > heavy burden. > > (Yes, there are a few GPLv2 libraries in Solaris as > well. The things > that use them are constrained to be GPL'd.) >
Kind of reminds me of the Java licensing model but Java is not part of Solaris or OpenSolaris. ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
