[indiana-discuss] Indiana FAQ

[Shawn Walker]

On 14/09/2007, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> > A few more questions though:
> >
> > "What license does it use?"
>
> "All of them!"   It's a distro after all, and like BSD & Linux
> distros contains bits under GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, Artistic,
> and all the other usual licenses.    It's a close call whether
> more of the OpenSolaris code is GPLv2 (GNOME, Firefox, GNU
> utilities, etc.) or CDDL (most of ON, NWS, etc.) at this point.

Before I forget, one big thing that we do need out of Sun's legal department:

once there is a distribution constructor, there needs to be a very
clear and concise FAQ about the CDDL and how it can be combined with
other licenses so that people making their own distributions can be
confident they are doing "the right thing". It should be general
advice of course with the disclaimer that they seek their own legal
counsel, but I think it would be inexcusable to leave people without
any guidance.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. " --Donald Knuth