On Thursday 03 November 2005 18:45, Erast Benson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 15:51 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (a) to ship packaged OpenSolaris core on "main" CD, and the rest of > > > GPL-filtered software, will go on "Companion" CD, or through APT > > > repository later on. This is doable, since OpenSolaris core has > > > everything it needs to be installed as a base system. We will try look > > > carefully into GPL vs. LGPL vs. dual-licensed GPL and will clean up > > > Nexenta to be complient with requests on this mailing lists. > > > > Remember that dpkg is GPLed, so there's a slightly awkward bootstrapping > > issue. > > I personally with community help will re-write stripped down CDDL > variant of dpkg. Will Debian community be happy? But this is sort of > duplication of work. I do not think that the goal of Debian community is > to force developers do duplicate their work.
Yes if there are license issues. > If Debian really wans to be "system runtime" independent, and would like > to have Debian GNU/Solaris port, it should release dpkg as LGPL > software. This should help FreeBSD and GNU/Solaris non-glibc ports to > suvirve. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD does NOT have any (free) license issues. CDDL 1.0 code has. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
