[indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

[Alan Coopersmith]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
> 
>> Brian Smith wrote:
>>> Or, is
>>> there some kind of rule that says that all Solaris functionality must be
>>> present without depending on any GNU-licensed software?
>> Nope, since most of our desktop functionality depends entirely on GNU
>> licensed software.
> 
> Alan, you are missunderstanding Solaris.
> 
> The basic OS (ON) should not depend on GPLd software. This is the same approach
> as the *BSD people use.

So the basic OS should also not have a libm math library?   ON is not a whole
OS and never has been.    ON by itself is not a useful system.

And while you may believe the GPL has no place there, that is not the policy
of Sun or OpenSolaris.

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