Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (949 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/08/09 16:36, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > > Just to make this explicit: A review contains also a legal review - and
> > > > that includes checking the license and whether there are license
> > > > incompatibilities,
> > >
> > > This license review has already been done by the Sun legal department.
> >
> > Every project has to do its on review.  What others uncover and what 
> > decisions 
> > they make, is a good input into the review but still somebody has to review 
> > it.
>
> Well, Sun payed real lawyers to review the license and this currently is the 
> only public review that has been done by lawyers. As the Sun lawyers are 
> known 
> to be _very_ picky about license problems (linux distributions distribute many
> questionable projects that are denied by Sun because of license problems), 
> this 
> is the best statement you currently get.
>
> > Btw. Sun is not distributing a Linux distribution,
>
> This is irrelevent for the project, Sun has an OSS distribution and Sun 
> rejects 
> to distribute questionable software (see above).
>
>
> Jörg

Just as Sun does what Sun chooses for Sun's projects, do you accept that
Linux does likewise?
Is there any justifiable reason why Linux should follow Sun's lead?
Linux is not joined at the hip to Sun or openSolaris.
I have a UltraSPARC5 with openSolaris, a E4500 with Solaris ready to
migrate to openSolaris, also openSolaris running under VirtualBox on
openSUSE, but I don't see the join between them and Linux.
> From my perspective, z/OS, for enterprise work, beats whatever comes a
long way back second. Having said that Solaris has been an extremely
good earner for colleagues and I as opposed to mainframes that we could
install and have up and running in 8 hours including an hour's lunch in
the pub.
To settle the argument, let Linux go it's own way and Solaris the other
way.... AMEN!
Regards
Sid.
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