On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 19:25 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > pe, 2006-07-07 kello 08:52 -0700, Erast Benson kirjoitti: > > On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 08:39 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > No. The primary issue is that the mixture of a GPL+CDDL work creates a > > > work that cannot be distributed by anyone else but the copyright > > > holder. > > > > It seems to be an offtopic here, but could you please elaborate a little > > bit further, which particular statement of which license prevents it? > > There were extensive discussion about this in November on debian-devel, > in the thread called "Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program", in which > Erast Benson also participated a lot. One article that seems pretty good > to me: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00123.html > > I suggest we not repeat this discussion. We're not breaking new ground > here, we're beating a dry, dark patch of ground where a long time ago > (or so the elders tell us) some people used to have a hobby of hitting a > horse carcass. > > If you do insist on re-iterating this discussion *again*, please do it > elsewhere than debian-devel.
No, I don't want to re-iterate the discussion again. Situation were clarified by FSF leaders by Eben Moglen during GPLv3 discussion and Alex Ross summarized it in April here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/04/msg00085.html but those are bit different issues as I can see them. Erast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]