From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Code from ~2.4.4 going into Solaris 9 Alpha?
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:10:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011101131050.B766@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011101111508.A412@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> <20011101115319.B2818@lorien.emufarm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011101115319.B2818@lorien.emufarm.org>
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.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-01 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-01 19:15 Code from ~2.4.4 going into Solaris 9 Alpha? Mike Fedyk
2001-11-01 19:53 ` Danek Duvall
2001-11-01 21:10 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2001-11-01 21:29 ` Chris Ricker
2001-11-02 8:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
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