[indiana-discuss] Indiana FAQ

[Shawn Walker]

On 15/09/2007, Roger Marquis <marquis at roble.com> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> > That's a valid answer, but one that needs to be in the FAQ because you
> > know it is going to be asked. People who have heard of Linux and "GPL"
> > will want to know.
>
> Can't imagine any scenario where this question would be asked with any
> frequency, so would recommend against putting it into the FAQ..

If you look at almost any open source project's page, the license is
either on the front page (as a link) or in the FAQ.

> Most people using OpenSolaris, as with other Unix and Linux distributions,
> do not care about the license. The few of us that do will read the license,
> or its preamble, directly.

Developers and people wanting to make their own distribution care a
lot about licenses, which is why it is important to know. It sucks
that we do have to care, and that there isn't a "one true license,"
but until that day I see nothing wrong with having it there.

> If and when Sun rolls OpenSolaris into SunSolve this should be covered in
> depth there.

Why would OpenSolaris be rolled into SunSolve and why would a
community issue be addressed on a Sun official website?

Community issues should be addressed on the community website.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
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