[indiana-discuss] Indiana FAQ

[Richard Elling]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 14/09/2007, Richard Elling <Richard.Elling at sun.com> wrote:
>> Shawn Walker wrote:
>>> 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.
>> IMHO it is a bug to need a FAQ for a license, but I don't think there is
>> a legal category in bugs.opensolaris.org :-)
>>         http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/licensing_faq/
> 
> The existing FAQ doesn't really address compatibility questions or
> questions that will pertain directly to people building and making
> their own distribution.

pose the questions and we'll add them to the FAQ.
  -- richard