Debian and Nexenta collide

Debian and Nexenta collide

When I read the GPL complaint, the syslibs exemption was my first
reaction. The "shipping with" clause didn't occur to me. After I read a
bit further, however, I could see the legal argument, altho the irony of a
GPL restriction allowing allowing use on a closed system but not on a
system composed of Free software, certainly bites!

Then the split solution occurred to me, just before I got to that part of
the article. After reading the full article, I still don't see the
problem. Certainly, it shouldn't be difficult to script a solution in the
installer that downloads (if necessary) and unpacks dpkg and the like in
place, making them part of a core-package that provides the necessary
dependencies and pre-stuffs the dependency database as necessary. I just
don't quite see the problem, at least not as anything at a level
comparable to setting up an entire OS, something they're already taking
on. It's just one more thing an installer must manage, on top of the
others it already manages. If they're using the Debian installer and
that's GPLed, creating one's own installer isn't a problem others haven't
tackled already, either.

Duncan