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: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. -- 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]
