A Sun engineer on Linux [LWN.net]

A Sun engineer on Linux

Posted Sep 23, 2004 16:29 UTC (Thu) by rcbixler (guest, #11917)
In reply to: A Sun engineer on Linux by einstein
Parent article: A Sun engineer on Linux

Speaking of SCO, it ought to be interesting to see if they balk at Sun's
move to open source Solaris. After all, according to SCO's theories, Sun
is a System V licencee, Solaris is a derivative work of System V and
therefore they are obligated under their licence to keep the Solaris
source code confidential.

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SCO on open-sourcing Solaris

Posted Sep 24, 2004 15:32 UTC (Fri) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

> [I]t ought to be interesting to see if [SCO]
> balk at Sun's move to open source Solaris.

They already have. The official word is that while Sun bought more rights
to the code than anyone else has, even that has limits, and open sourcing
the code goes beyond those limits. (That's what Chris Sontag stated in a
recent interview. Unfortunately I don't recall where the article was that
I was reading, likely ZDNet or CNet, maybe linked from a Groklaw article
thread, as I spent a couple hours on those three sites yesterday.)

Duncan