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I feel particularly slow

I feel particularly slow

Posted Aug 27, 2010 11:38 UTC (Fri) by rschroev (subscriber, #4164)
In reply to: I feel particularly slow by jwakely
Parent article: Callaway: The long, sordid tale of Sun RPC, abbreviated somewhat, to protect the [guilty] and the irresponsible

I'm not complaining. I'm not blaming anyone. I'm not saying someone should have done the work.

I'm saying that I'm surprised that no-one has done it. There have been other cases of rewrites because of licensing issues (e.g. Gnome was created because of licensing issues with KDE), and there are numerous examples of multiple competing implementations of the same functionality.

Knowing that, it does seems strange to me that the community has waited 25 years for Sun/Oracle to change the license, instead of rewriting the code.

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I feel particularly slow

Posted Aug 27, 2010 12:07 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Err. Noone has been waiting for 25 years. At that time, this was considered a permissive and good license. It became and was identified to be a problem only recently, once by Debian and again within the Fedora license audit and Sun made some progress and Oracle has finished the task.

I feel particularly slow

Posted Aug 27, 2010 15:36 UTC (Fri) by ESRI (guest, #52806) [Link]

I don't think anyone prevented anyone from doing the work if they wanted.

It sounds like those who evaluated the work necessary decided working on relicensing was the most cost-effective route.

I imagine if someone had come to the opposite conclusion, the code would, in fact, have been rewritten as you suggest.


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