[This discussion doesn't really belong into the GnuTLS case any more, so probably not onto the opensolaris-arc list. Further discussion should happen elsewhere.]
Joerg Schilling schrieb: > J?rg Barfurth <Joerg.Barfurth at Sun.COM> wrote: >> Maybe we need a separate 'GPL licensed libraries and plugins' package >> repository outside the 'core OpenSolaris' one, just as much as we appear >> to need 'closed source bits and pieces' or 'other less well integrated >> software' repositories. In all cases the core architecture should be >> defined (IMHO) without reliance on any of these extra pieces of >> software. How much architectural effort should be spends on these extras >> appears to be an open issue. > > If the libs are small and used by few programs only, they may be linked > staically to avoid pushing other people into license violations. I don't think static linking makes a difference here. One or few private uses (for applications that are GPL) is fine. > You already > mentioned that GPL libs should not export interfaces that are of importance > for OpenSolaris users. > Does it matter that they 'should not'? I'm sure they do export interfaces of interest - and maybe even of importance - to OpenSolaris users. The authors simply didn't ask us for permission ;-) We should make it easy for these users to obtain and use that software. But for that it need not be part of the public core Solaris architecture. > If there are more users of such libs, there could be a directory > /usr/lib/encumbered/ to hold them as dynamic versions ;-) > It don't think that name would be politically correct.... >> AFAICT use of GPLv3 in general is a different issue. IIRC Sun has >> already released sofware under that license, so it shouldn't be a >> problem per se. > > Could you point me to that SW please? > See http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-02/sunflash.20080219.1.xml - J?rg -- Joerg Barfurth Software Engineer mailto:joerg.barfurth at sun.com Desktop Technology Thin Client Software http://www.sun.com/software/sunray/ Sun Microsystems GmbH http://www.sun.com/software/javadesktopsystem/
