RE: [UUG/MLUG] Solaris Source to be released.

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, David Lloyd wrote:

> Does the license on the Solaris code allow for this?  One way it could
> really add to Linux is the NFS drivers, espically locking over NFS.

Bingo. Unless they have *really* changed the license a lot, this is just
the problem: you can change Solaris for your own purposes, but you can't
fork the code, take the code outside Solaris, or do other things that
people have gotten used to doing with other Open Source licenses.  Havoc
Pennington, on his home page, has a long critique of the SCSL, and
concludes that it doesn't really cut it, and that people will just work
with code that has licenses that are more suitable for open source
development.  In other words, why hack Solaris (for the benefit of Sun)
when you could hack BSD or Linux (for the benefit of virtually everybody).

Again, I *hope* the SCSL has changed, but last I knew it hadn't.  

Caveat coder, or something like that.

jking