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Oracle works on Dtrace for Linux (The H)Oracle works on Dtrace for Linux (The H)Posted Oct 6, 2011 20:59 UTC (Thu) by fw (subscriber, #26023)In reply to: Oracle works on Dtrace for Linux (The H) by JoeBuck Parent article: Oracle works on Dtrace for Linux (The H)
We don't really know if they have the rights for a Linux port. Sometimes, big company make odd mistakes, like Ebay buying Skype the company, but not all Skype-related technology.
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Oracle works on Dtrace for Linux (The H) Posted Oct 6, 2011 22:28 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]
No. Sun appears to have owned dtrace, and if they do then Oracle now own it.
The interesting thing, as I see it, is the blog implies that dtrace is going to be released as CDDL. Seeing as that's incompatible with GPL, it means that Oracle will either be unable to distribute, or will be forced to distribute the source on the same medium as the binary (due to a quirk/bug in GPLv2, they will NOT REPEAT NOT be able to distribute compiled kernels electronically eg on the web).
Or force all customers who want to use it to compile their own kernels.
We'll see.
Cheers,
Oracle works on Dtrace for Linux (The H) Posted Oct 6, 2011 22:40 UTC (Thu) by sciurus (subscriber, #58832) [Link]
From the blog post: "some small kernel components and header files will be dual-licensed while the bulk of DTrace the kernel modules, libraries, and commands will use the CDDL"
It sounds like they're trying to release just enough under the GPL to get away with distribution.
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