[osol-mktg] Re: Martin Fink's Challenge "Go GPL"

[Stephen Lau]

More (mostly) negative reaction to Fink on /.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/11/1241214&from=rss

A particularly interesting comment was from an HP employee responding to 
someone saying HP was being particularly hypocritical given their 
licensing around HP-UX:

"Lastly, HP can't just open up HP-UX without a huge amount of work; 
there is code in there which is licensed under arrangements incompatible 
with the GPL. Case in point: HP licenses the SVR4 codebase, and I 
believe there is some ongoing litigation involving the contract 
conditions around that. Can't quite remember the company's name..."

cheers,
steve

Laura Ramsey wrote:
> 
> Interesting (negative) reaction to Martin Fink's dishwater challenge to 
> IBM and SUN calling for GPL.
> I know this is ground that has been covered over and over again in our 
> community. Just in case anyone is interested in opening a 
> discussion...or commenting on GPL vs. CDDL...you'll see the talkback 
> button --go for it!
> 
> While controversy over a choice of license can be distracting, it's good 
> to remember why CDDL is good for our community, and to comment when 
> given the opportunity.
> 
> When you comment, be sure to mention opensolaris.org by name!
> 
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=1702&tag=nl.e539
> 
> 
> -- 


-- 
stephen lau // stevel at sun.com | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net
opensolaris // solaris kernel development
_______________________________________________
opensolaris-mktg mailing list
opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org