Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:10:50 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Code from ~2.4.4 going into Solaris 9 Alpha? |
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:53:19AM -0800, Danek Duvall wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:15:08AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > I just looked at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/unix/history.html, and > > noticed a line from linux over to solaris 9 alpha. > > > > Does anyone know what code they copied, and if they're now making solaris > > GPL compatible? > > That might simply be the inclusion of various "freeware" packages -- > shells, gzip, apache, samba, and so forth, not necessarily kernel code. > All of those packages come with full source as well, so they should be > compliant with the GPL if that's how they happen to be licensed. > > Of course, the line should probably be connected to Solaris 8, since > that's when most of these things started shipping with it. >
Oh, sorry about that...
I didn't mean to start a flame thread (like someone accused me of doing), it just looked interesting to me, and I don't remember anything in kernel traffic (which I was reading at the time) or on lkml (which I have been reading more recently)... so I figured someone here would know more.
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