Re: CDDL/GPL and Nexenta (with CDDL libc)

2010-09-03 Thread Ben Finney
Anil Gulecha writes: > Illumos will be the upstream. Illumos project started out as a branch > of OpenSolaris code, but is now effectively a fork of OpenSolaris > codebase. I don't understand the distinction being made there. What is different between “a branch of the code” versus “a fork of the

Re: CDDL/GPL and Nexenta (with CDDL libc)

2010-09-03 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Anil Gulecha writes: > >> Illumos will be the upstream. Illumos project started out as a branch >> of OpenSolaris code, but is now effectively a fork of OpenSolaris >> codebase. > > I don't understand the distinction being made there. What is d

Re: CDDL/GPL and Nexenta (with CDDL libc)

2010-09-03 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Fri Sep 03 14:04, Paul Wise wrote: > BTW, whatever happened to Debian GNU/kOpenSolaris? > > http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~dtbartle/opensolaris/ > How would the licence interactions work here, with a CDDL kernel and a GPL libc/userland? Does the fact that it's specifically the kernel satisfy the