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Re: Debian OpenSolaris port, exchange with Sun folks in webforum/MailingList



* Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> [2005-09-05 21:14:20]:

> On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:59:10PM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> > I just chatted with Sun's FOSS embassador Simon Phillips and i
> > asked if Sun would switch to a LGPL compatible license even for
> > openSolaris in the course of the recent announcement.
> > 
> > However he said it would stay with the CDDL and was not aware how
> > that would hinder a debian port of openSolaris. Could the
> > people who are interested in working on this please head over to
> > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/discussions/ and more specifically
> > to  http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=32 for the
> > GNU-Solaris discussion to work on a way to resolve the issues (or
> > clarify the problems, first)?
> > 
> > Aparently there is even a mailling list interface to those
> > formums. Feel free to figure it out yourself and mail here once
> > you found out. (c:
> > 
> > The Sun folks understand full well the power of a debian port of
> > openSolaris and the lift they would get from it. (c:
> 
> Did you per chance mean this one :
> 
>   http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=1093&tstart=30

the thread you found is linux related but otherwise rather irrellevant.
Simon said there was not much discussion about licensing yet.

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=32 was what he
meant. i guess that is why he mentioned it to me. (c:

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