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A uprobes addendum

A uprobes addendum

Posted Jan 25, 2010 12:26 UTC (Mon) by patrick_g (subscriber, #44470)
In reply to: A uprobes addendum by trasz
Parent article: A uprobes addendum

>>> Sun had two choices - either release the code under GPL, making it pretty much impossible to use by everyone except Linux, or release it under more sane copyleft license that doesn't create additional hurdles for end users.

Have you heard, just for example, about Firefox disjunctive tri-license ?
They would have been able to choose a similar solution but Sun chose deliberately to prevent the inclusion of DTrace in Linux.


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