Java problem
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Dec 31 06:47:34 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 00:20 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> >
> > This more or less replicates Les' contentiousness towards GNU and GPL
> > license stuff because he is desperately interested in running
> > proprietary software without hassle and blames kernel developers, GPL
> > license and Red Hat / Fedora packages for the problems which come from
> > vendors who want to only provide binary software.
>
> That's a tiny subset of the real problem of the GPL. Consider that it
> also prevents you from having zfs in the Linux kernel, zfs being neither
> proprietary nor distributed only in binary. And that's just the obvious
> thing you might know about and want today. The number of possible
> combinations of things it prevents from being distributed are actually
> astronomical.
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I certainly hope so Ollie
you can run ZFS AND not have to deal with messy GPL kernel...it's called
Open Solaris
Craig
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