Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Sun and GPL

["Wil Reichert" <wil.reichert@gmail.com>]

On 5/27/07, Isidore Ducasse <ducasse.isidore@gmail.com> wrote:
> le Sun, 27 May 2007 23:32:49 +0000 (UTC)
> Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> a écrit:
>
> > Not necessarily (or likely) /all/ their software, but significant parts
> > of it.  OpenSolaris is currently CDDL, which /is/ OSI approved as a real
> > "open" license, but was designed in part deliberately to be GPLv2
> > incompatible.  Apparently, they weren't interested in Linux "stealing"
> > their technologies, which they thought would happen if they made it GPLv2
> > compatible.
>
> Solaris' dev team had diverging points of view about GPL being relevant for a private firm as Sun. Now it looks like there was room for a single conception over there.
>
> > They ARE considering dual-licensing Solaris under GPLv3, however, which
> > they've been working closely with the FSF on.  Of course that's not a
> > given until it's out, but it'd definitely widen the interest base (I for
> > one may well be interested, especially if Linux stays GPLv2 only).
>
> You mean the bare kernel, right? Solaris' kernel could be an alternative to linux? Is the latter really different from the *BSD's? I've installed a NetBSD on my machine "for fun" recently (tho I switched back to using my good'ol gentoo, can't get used to anything else now. pkgsrc looks like a sympathetic old auntie); it appears to practice monolithic kernel. What would be different in running a GPLv3 kernel? I've read about the anti-DRM part of it; is there some other reason you/we could be interested in it?
>
> BTW isn't there a technical issue licensing a single version of a soft against two incompatible licenses? Or did you mean dual-licensing GPLv2 and GPLv3?
>
> > Of course Linus and the other kernel devs were originally very much
> > against early GPLv3 drafts.
>
> Is it a matter of diverging positions towards industrial partners/users?
>
> > The Gentoo Java devs are working on it, but as I said, I don't
> > believe enough of the entire Java infrastructure has been released as GPL
> > yet to do the entire thing as sources.  Even after it has, it'll take
> > several months as experimental ebuilds in the Java overlay (emerge layman
> > and read up on using it, if interested)
>
> Ok! Does anyone know the difference between the java-overlay and the java-gcj-overlay?
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The thing I've wondered about GPL'ing java, is when do we finally get
a native 64 bit browser plugin?

Wil
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