James G. Stallings II wrote:
All that aside, I'm preparing to evaluate opensolaris on an intel box, and have
a few goofy questions that I haven't been able to gather from the faq or from
searching this list:
One important point is that OpenSolaris is just a set of source code at
this point.
On 8/19/05, Robert W. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nobody was suggesting that Open Solaris go GPL, merely that the license be
modified to be GPL compatible.
Would it be too much to kindly ask the FSF to consider amending the
GPL (in light of the forthcoming GPL V3) to allow compatibility
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
James G. Stallings II wrote:
All that aside, I'm preparing to evaluate opensolaris on an intel box, and
have a few goofy questions that I haven't been able to gather from the faq
or from searching this list:
One important point is that
As of today at least, the Solaris Express - Community Release web page is
serving the files `sol-nv-b18-platform-v{1234}-iso.zip'.
But SX b19 and b20 have apparently already been distributed via this same web
page in previous days or weeks. (I'm referring here only to the Solaris Express
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Robert W. Fuller wrote:
Shawn Walker wrote:
If opensolaris ever went GPL, I'd be gone in an instant, and I suspect
others would as well. Because at that point, it would become useless
Nobody was suggesting that Open Solaris go GPL, merely that the license be
modified
it really does not make any difference about all the fine points about if it is
GPL or CDDL. the bottom line is that opensource devlopers and users want their
software to be GPL. if it is not then these people will be turned off by
opensolaris. opensolaris would benefit greatly from having a
Steve
I like to invite you take a look at TWW's opensource package offering. I
believe it
is a superset of Solaris Companion packages and it is GNU opensourced.
ftp://support.thewrittenword.com/dists/7.1/src/
All of your three conerns has been addressed by TWW's Hyper Package Management
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
Sun has recently started a Student Developer Program in Taiwan. Basically, it
says that (in traditional Chinese, I am not going to translate it):
(in some more detail):
Students in Taiwan will be able to get a free license to a suite of
developer software
michael wolfe wrote:
it really does not make any difference about all the fine points about if it is
GPL or CDDL. the bottom line is that opensource devlopers and users want their
software to be GPL. if it is not then these people will be turned off by
opensolaris.
I cannot agree with
