Posted by: Charles Tryon
on February 01, 2005 10:43 AM
Well, it sounds like Sun is promising that they won't WHACK us, but only if we are playing in their ballgame. Open Solaris is in fact open in the sense that you can look at it, modify it, and re-distribute your changes, but only in the context of Open Solaris. There's a 12 foot fence around it to keep the CDDL in and the GPL out. Oh, and if you are developing under the GPL (for something other than Open Solaris, obviously) there is no indication that Sun won't come after you. In addition, now that the patents are all out there in the open, if you DO violate them, they are likely to REALLY pound you into the ground!
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Posted by: Charles Tryon on February 01, 2005 10:43 AM#