A few notes on the OpenSolaris release

A few notes on the OpenSolaris release

Posted Jun 16, 2005 6:14 UTC (Thu) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159)
In reply to: A few notes on the OpenSolaris release by robla
Parent article: A few notes on the OpenSolaris release

There are a few differences between the Sun agreement and the FSF agreement though:

• The FSF agreement is a copyright assignment rather than a joint copyright agreement (although the FSF licenses the code back to you under non-restrictive terms).
• The FSF agreement includes a promise that they will release the code only under a copyleft license. If they break the promise, the assignment contract is void.

There are enough differences that you can't say that it is the same tradeoff. Whether this will affect the community that builds around the code is another matter.

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