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Re: [News] [OSS] Sun Microsystems Gradually Moving to Support and Services

__/ [ Thufir ] on Wednesday 13 June 2007 02:35 \__

> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:58:18 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> [...]
>> Solaris can never be Linux
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Things haven't changed much at Sun. When Sun launched its |
>> OpenSolaris project in 2005 it used the Common Development and |
>> Distribution Licence - which is incompatible withb the GPL - and | some
>> system code was not released.
> [...]
> 
> Now that Solaris is GPL'ed, surely there will be cross pollination?
> 
> Even if Linus has a hate-on for solaris, there must be at least *one*
> thing which solaris which linux lacks which, thanks to their GPL
> compatability, can now make it from solaris to linux.  Of course, this is
> a two way street, which is good...

Sun have apparently just pressured Linus into considering (at least
*considering*) dual licensing Linux (GPLv2+3). It's in the kernel's mailing
lists...

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