GNU Watch wrote: > I have heard nothing but broken promises from Ian Murdock and other big whigs > at sun saying that opensolaris will be released under the GPLv3. Many > developers dont want to invest time to opensolaris until it is under the > GPLv3 because the CDDL doesnt protect users and developers freedoms as well. > Will this ever happen? and when? I started contributing to Opensolaris > because i thought it was going to be gpl'd in the near future like what was > promised from sun. I honestly feel let down by sun because empty promises and > murdock who abandoned debian.
OpenSolaris cannot be released under the GPL as long as it depends on closed binaries in core areas like the kernel and libc - doing so would make it less free as no one could then distribute a working system. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org