I received a notice that in this week Sun will adopt the Gnome platform
as a default platform for Solaris.
I think that it is a good new for us, and to all who beleiev in Open
Source and/or Free Software.
The developer Miguel de Icaza must be gratefull and deserv our congrats.
Ricardo
On Don, 17 Aug 2000, petruzza wrote:
I received a notice that in this week Sun will adopt the Gnome platform
as a default platform for Solaris.
This will mean Sun is going to ship GPL applications beeing linked to their
proprietary libraries together with the operating system..
Regards,
How about the new CNRI license for Python 1.6b1
(http://hdl.handle.net/1895.22/1011) ? In your introductory mail from Aug 8,
you said that it was approved by OSI at the last board meeting, still it
wasn't in this list.
`Python license' (http://www.python.org/doc/Copyright.html) points to the
old
I wanted to get some feedback about the best way to assist in
streamlining OSI license approval for customers.
1) For instance, we have a number of customers who we are helping to
take their code to the open source and thus are assisting in getting OSI
approval for them. While we encourage
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Alexandra White wrote:
I wanted to get some feedback about the best way to assist in
streamlining OSI license approval for customers.
OSI is doing what we can to approve licenses; in fact we approved a couple
at a meeting this week during Linuxworld, once we get our
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Alexandra White wrote:
2) What minor changes to an existing OSI license are acceptable without
seeking approval?
Personal opinion, I am in no way associated with OSI...
I would say that changing the name is perfectly acceptable. Changing
the warranty disclaimer is also
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, David Johnson wrote:
I goes even further than this. One of the founding principles of GNOME
was that unfree software made people unfree. Praising Sun for choosing
GNOME as the desktop for their proprietary Solaris seems to throw
these principles right out the door.
It's
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
It's like the difference between shoving someone down a flight of stairs,
or leading them by the hand as they walk down. We're all still arriving
at the same place, but one approach is far more effective than the other.
Well said! My post made
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