On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Andrew Greimann <agreim...@live.com> wrote: > I'm aware of the 'GPL situation'. As stated in my previous post yesterday, > > "Apparently, as much as I like using OpenSolaris, without the ability to > completely change the GPL components to where they're dwindled to simply > coreutils and a LILO bootloader or something miniature in respect to the > whole of the OS..." > > It would be impossible to take out core components, but I believe avoiding > using the GPL can be helped. I'm aware a total 100% is impossible, but a > 80-85% non-GPL open source system I think is more realistic. Even Haiku under > the MIT uses coreutils, and OS X uses at least nano under its Unix > subsystem--so it's not [i]totally[/i] BSD. > --------------------------------- > OK.... Getting back to the post. After looking through Google, Win4Solaris > seems to be the best solution over VirtualBox or JPC. I remembered the icon, > but not the name. I merely started this discussion because I couldn't > remember the name 'VirtualBox'. :-D Honestly, I had no idea it was > GPLed--until seeing the webpage, I thought it was under a proprietary license.
Is the LGPL as evil as the GPL in your mind? If so, sounds like you oughta steer clear of Win4Solaris as well. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU, Win4* are based on QEMU, which at least partially falls under the LGPL. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
