Debian and Nexenta collide [LWN.net]

Debian and Nexenta collide

Posted Nov 10, 2005 4:14 UTC (Thu) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888)
In reply to: Debian and Nexenta collide by Duncan
Parent article: Debian and Nexenta collide

That's pretty much the way un-open Solaris has handled it. Any GNU or other GPL'd utilities are shipped on an entirely separate disc, so the OS components do not "accompan[y] the [GPLd] executable[s]". They are packaged such that Sun's own install mechanisms can be used to install them, avoiding the dpkg bootstrap issue.

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Debian and Nexenta collide

Posted Nov 11, 2005 4:38 UTC (Fri) by kimoto (subscriber, #5244) [Link]

What about when I turned on some new hardware from Sun and found some incarnation of of Solaris 8 on it, including working versions of some GPL'd programs like gzip and bash?