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Sun Considers dual-sourcing Solaris Under GPL3

Posted by Hemos on from the what-would-the-impact-be dept.

foorilious writes "In his blog, Sun Microsystem's President and COO Jonathan Schwartz discusses the possibility of dual-licensing Solaris (and perhaps the rest of their software suite) under GPLv3, in addition to the CDDL, which is the OSI-approved license under which these products are already available, but generally considered to be incompatible with the GPL at some level. Though this could mean an opening of the floodgates to a lot of sharing between Linux and Solaris (among other things), it's worth mentioning that Schwartz has speculated on exciting things in the past (such as porting Solaris to IBM's Power) that we subsequently never heard another thing about."

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  1. a race to hypocrisy by geoffspear · · Score: 5, Funny
    Which will happen first:

    - Linux zealots abandon their "everything about Solaris sucks and I'll never use it" dogma, or
    - Mac zealots abandon their "Intel processors suck and I'll never use one" dogma?

    The Mac people are taking an early lead, but anything can happen.

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  2. Re:Sharing with Linux? by m50d · · Score: 3, Funny

    He meant GNU/Linux, most of which will be automatically available under GPL3 once it is published.

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  3. Speculation with Schwartz by digitaldc · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...it's worth mentioning that Schwartz has speculated on exciting things in the past (such as porting Solaris to IBM's Power) that we subsequently never heard another thing about.

    You can find out if you just use the Schwartz - trust your feelings, let go.

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  4. GNU by Billly+Gates · · Score: 3, Funny

    GNU = GNU is Now Unix

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