[ogb-discuss] License clarification?

[Stephen Lau]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Stephen Lau <stevel at opensolaris.org> wrote:
>   
>> Shawn Walker wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I was hoping that someone could forward the following message on to
>>> relevant parties at Sun to ensure some of the concerns raised are
>>> addressed:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2008/04/24/organic-vs-non-organic-open-source/#comment-371
>>     
>>> In short, the poster worries that:
>>>
>>> * The OpenSolaris Binary License doesn't allow benchmarking
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>  He's not talking about the OpenSolaris Binary License - he's talking about
>> the SXCE/DE EULA.  The point of confusion probably surrounds his
>> misunderstanding that OpenSolaris != SXCE which, as we all know, is fairly
>> common. :-P
>>     
>
> No, he really is talking about the OpenSolaris binary license:
>
> "I stand corrected on the Open Solaris license. It doesn't explicitly
> prohibit benchmarks, although according to the OpenSolaris Binary
> License, the only permitted use is "reproduce and use internally the
> Software for the purposes of developing or running an OpenSolaris
> distribution". I'm not entirely sure benchmarking is considered
> "running an OpenSolaris distribution", but that's a question for the
> lawyers, I guess."
>   
Ah, my mistake - I hadn't seen that update; I was thinking of his 
initial comments where he had misused "OpenSolaris license" to refer to 
SXCE's license prohibition on publicly publishing benchmark results.

-steve

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