Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3

2005-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 05:55:36PM -0700, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Sven Luther: That said, i was told there is not much userland CDDLed stuff to consider, and that basically we have only the OpenSolaris kernel, with a GNU userland to consider, and this scenario doesn't include any problem

Re: [osol-discuss] Old Topic: GPL CDDL -- New Topic: Mail Lists

2005-09-08 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Shanon Loveridge wrote: On 9/8/05, *Jim Grisanzio* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general, as traffic increases on discuss -- no matter what the issue happens to be -- people comment to me that they can't keep up, they want to unsubscribe, and that the list

Re: [osol-discuss] Old Topic: GPL CDDL -- New Topic: Mail Lists

2005-09-08 Thread Shanon Loveridge
On 9/8/05, Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm fine with leaving discuss as discuss because it has grown into a general conversation list. We can certainly change the name if that's the issue to make it more clear, though. I'm also happy to be more assertive in pushing conversations to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words: if you like milk, don't kill the cow Unless the cow is sick and produce unusable sour milk or whatever, and there is plenty of other sane ones :) The more I read from you on this topic, the more I get the impression that you don't

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sorry but it seems that you did not understand the problem at all. Well, you could use wording which are quite agressive, as was already the case in the GPL vs bSD discussion or in the Linux vs OpenSolaris post. I think you are too deeply

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
Again moving to gnu-sol, please follow-up there. On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:19:06AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words: if you like milk, don't kill the cow Unless the cow is sick and produce unusable sour milk or whatever, and there

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words: if you like milk, don't kill the cow Unless the cow is sick and produce unusable sour milk or whatever, and there is plenty of other sane ones :) The more I read from you on this topic, the more I get the impression

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:54:45AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words: if you like milk, don't kill the cow Unless the cow is sick and produce unusable sour milk or whatever, and there is plenty of other sane ones :)

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My impression is that you are discrediting the Debian project by repeating unproven claims of a single person that once did come up with anti-social demands on Debian legal. See my other email. And if you are curious, i think the latest thread

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg, we are sad to see you react in this way to this discussion - after all that is what it is. I am sorry, but this thread turned into a useless discussion that I am trying to avoid. We actually think Sven is making some very

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:21:14AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My impression is that you are discrediting the Debian project by repeating unproven claims of a single person that once did come up with anti-social demands on Debian legal. See my

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You just proved that it's you who is uninformed You constantly repeat this single text from Debian Legal, but you avoid to do some research on the background. This single text ? I gave you a link to a 100+ email thread with many participants,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, well, i propose we stop the hostilities, i investigate the issue, and see what the debian ftp-masters have to say about it, and then will post my conclusions. I hope then you will take them with an open mind :) I hope you used the word hostilities by

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg, we are sad to see you react in this way to this discussion - after all that is what it is. We actually think Sven is making some very important points about how developers feel about their contributions being used for different

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Casper . Dik
He has two basic approaches: - Telling people that you are not allowed to run GPLd software on top of non-GPL operating systems or to ship both together on a single medium. If this was true, most operating systems (including all Linux distributions I am aware

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:07:37PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg, we are sad to see you react in this way to this discussion - after all that is what it is. We actually think Sven is making some very important points about

Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:20:44PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He has two basic approaches: -Telling people that you are not allowed to run GPLd software on top of non-GPL operating systems or to ship both together on a single medium. If this was true, most

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me add another statement You cannot leave it, can you ? Aha you are again being personal? He has two basic approaches: - Telling people that you are not allowed to run GPLd software on top of non-GPL operating systems or to ship

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Casper . Dik
You cannot link GPLed software with GPL-incompatible system libraries, if you distribute said software together with the system libraries. This has been known for age, and Sun used to distribute gcc on a separate CD back then. The exact quote from the GPL is (End of clause QPL 3) : However,

Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Casper . Dik
Believe me, the GPL has been written many year ago, and a huge amount of people have been involved with it since then and scrutinized it in every neat details, and there are little doubt left about those issues. Yet you seem to be very confused: To direct you to the GPL FAQ for more detail :

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:20:44PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He has two basic approaches: -Telling people that you are not allowed to run GPLd software on top of non-GPL operating systems or to ship both together on a single medium. If this was true, most

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [Fwd: [osol-mktg] ALL of the 1st 5000 t-shirts have shipped]

2005-09-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 9/7/05, Rich Teer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Me three, from as far away as the exotic locale of Maryland! What he said. Except my exotic locale is Kelowna! I have the original OpenSolaris pilot program shirt ( the opensource one ) and

Re: [osol-discuss] Suspend to disk on a Sun Fire 6800?

2005-09-08 Thread Stefan Jankowski
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:56:13PM +0200, Felix Schulte wrote: On 07 Sep 2005 14:45:49 +0200, Stefan Jankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then there's this gem: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.solaris/2004-08/0828.html That gem is old and was one of the arguments of

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (ro

2005-09-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Sven Luther wrote: Exactly because America is such a crazy place, i don't think an exeption is possible, since nobody either from debian or the companies which provide us bandwidth, hosting or hardware (and sun was among them, not sure if it still is), or even individual users are ready to take

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread John Plocher
How quickly we forget... Many parts of what we call the Berkeley Software Distribution was written or maintained by people who were or became Sun employees, and much of what was delivered in SunOS 3.x (and somewhat in 4.x) was contributed directly back into the BSD4.1/4.2 sources. At that point

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Casper . Dik
How quickly we forget... Many parts of what we call the Berkeley Software Distribution was written or maintained by people who were or became Sun employees, and much of what was delivered in SunOS 3.x (and somewhat in 4.x) was contributed directly back into the BSD4.1/4.2 sources. At that point

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris Source Study Blog

2005-09-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Ivan Wang wrote: BTW, during my recent trip to Taiwan, I have heard talks about Sun's new Galaxy (?) system. I understand this is based on the Opteron chips. It seems that Galaxy should attract a new wave of interests in OpenSolaris/Solaris. Yes, they are. Here's a link:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Richard M. Stallman
Note that the license of glibc is not the GPL. It is the LGPL. Yep, indeed. But i guess the CDDL is also LGPL incompatible ? I don't think so. The LGPL is compatible with almost all kinds of provisions; that's what it was designed for. ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Richard M. Stallman
I wonder though what the FSF position is about those choice-of-venue clauses, which seem so controversial for debian. We do not object to them. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [Fwd: [osol-mktg] ALL of the 1st 5000 t-shirts have shipped]

2005-09-08 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 9/7/05, Rich Teer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Me three, from as far away as the exotic locale of Maryland! What he said. Except my exotic locale is Kelowna! I have the original OpenSolaris pilot

Re: [osol-discuss] Old Topic: GPL CDDL -- New Topic: Mail Lists

2005-09-08 Thread Mike Kupfer
Jim This is a common story but it can be used to argue two ways -- (1) Jim that we should distribute the conversation more to better follow Jim the technical issues, and (2) that the community is naturally Jim migrating to discuss (probably for simplicity) and in the process Jim is making the

[osol-discuss] Re: [Fwd: [osol-mktg] ALL of the 1st 5000 t-shirts have shipped]

2005-09-08 Thread TJ Yang
That's great news, Sara. Thanks for all your persistent work with the fulfillment company to make those shirts *finally* fly the coop! I hope that everyone wears them in good health. :-) Claire For the two shirts I got, I think I have to thank Sara twice ;) tj This message posted

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: [Fwd: [osol-mktg] ALL of the 1st 5000 t-sh irts have shipped]

2005-09-08 Thread Döhr, Markus ICC-H
That's great news, Sara. Thanks for all your persistent work with the fulfillment company to make those shirts *finally* fly the coop! I hope that everyone wears them in good health. :-) Claire For the two shirts I got, I think I have to thank Sara twice ;) Just curious -

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris Source Study Blog

2005-09-08 Thread TJ Yang
div id=jive-html-wrapper-div I agree completely. A wiki is the next logical step. I would be happy to help create and edit one. Can Sun host the beast?brbrdivspan class=gmail_quoteOn 9/7/05, b class=gmail_sendernameGavin Maltby/b How about this one

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Shawn Walker
On 9/7/05, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, indeed. But i guess the CDDL is also LGPL incompatible ? I don't see how, given that the LGPL is compatible to proprietary non-(open source/free)-software. From what I see the LGPL is compatible with just abou any license... -- Shawn Walker,