Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 00:53, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:50:01PM -0800, Alex Ross wrote:
> > Here's the 2nd part of the answer:
> >
> > support@nexenta.com wrote:
> > > The question is, are you going to pursue a legal action against Sun
> > > Microsystems?
>
> To which my answer was "yes". I'm not sure how that's supposed to excuse
> you in any way.
Could you please elaborate why your answer was "yes" ? Having done that with
Companion CD [1] (which is full of mostly GPL software linked against Sun's
libc) for Solaris 8/9/10 Sun Microsystems, Inc is perfectly ok (except they
calling it wrongly freeware [2]) because of GPL permits that [3][4]. That is
not the problem (that's GPL being smart here), the problem is that I doubt
CDDL 1.0 can satisfy Debian free software principles and rules, thus I doubt
gnusolaris can be part of the Debian project, except if the copyright holders
re-think the license of its the codebase and relicensed it as well.
[1] http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/
[2] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#freeware
[3] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs
[4] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FSWithNFLibs
[5] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatIsCompatible
P.S. I'd like to apologize being too impatient and replying to previous
messages on that thread which have been already replied but missed by myself.
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