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Solaris to be Community Licensed
Posted by
sengan
on Thu Feb 25, 1999 06:45 PM
from the more-funny-licenses dept.
from the more-funny-licenses dept.
In an update to
Rob's report, ZD-Net is reporting that
Sun will Community License Solaris. Basically you can get
the source at zero-cost, but you must return bug fixes to Sun,
you must pass Sun's compatability tests, and pay Sun if you
ship binaries commercially.
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- What the hell is wrong with Sengan by anewsome (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @12:14AM
- Enigma by Trepidity (Score:1) Saturday February 27 1999, @03:23AM
- Stupid Yanks by Trepidity (Score:1) Saturday February 27 1999, @03:25AM
- Powerful Yanks by TopSpin (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @01:07AM
- Is there a full moon tonight? by pingouin (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @12:39AM
- What the hell is wrong with you people? by pingouin (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @12:51AM
- I Support Free Speech (ie. Sengan) by pingouin (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @02:41AM
- I'd like to add something... by pingouin (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @10:00AM
- I had the same problem by jabbo (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @04:19PM
- Still a two way street by Sturm (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @09:03AM
- Does anybody know IP law? by Ami Ganguli (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @12:31AM
- Universal health care by free779 (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @06:57PM
- Sun never delivered my free copy on Solaris! by BadlandZ (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @03:55AM
- 2nd thoughts by copito (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @12:32AM
- Can anyone get through to www.sun.com? by copito (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @12:38AM
- A stupid yank speaks by copito (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @01:20AM
- Britain is a lovely 3rd world country by copito (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @02:14AM
- Try a little more complex economics by copito (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @02:50AM
- Give Sun,IBM credit for trying to change by cthompso (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @12:28PM
- Stupid Yanks by KevCo (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @07:28PM
- Good! by ksheff (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @08:19AM
- Marketing Buzz-Words. by Robert Bowles (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @06:12AM
- Universal health care by acb (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @11:53AM
- Enigma by acb (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @11:57AM
- Um. Wow. by aheitner (Score:1) Thursday February 25 1999, @11:56PM
- Sun never delivered my free copy on Solaris! by anthonyjhicks.com (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @12:07AM
- Don't care for commercial unix much anyway ... by cthonious (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @10:38AM
- BSD luser wants his SunOS 4 by orabidoo (Score:1) Sunday February 28 1999, @07:23PM
- Beer in the US by Si (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @01:15PM
- Sengan's OK in my books by RedOctober (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @12:56AM
- I Support Free Speech (ie. Sengan) by Twigg (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @02:18AM
- Funny, mine came real quick. by CzechSome (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @12:47PM
- Solaris x86 Binaries on Linux? by IntlHarvester (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @11:31AM
- UltraPenguin by mrsam (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @12:05AM
- Stupid Yanks by Bigman (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @05:26AM
- Cable TV and Nikes by JamesKPolk (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @02:24AM
- the one time I don't hit preview... by JamesKPolk (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @02:36AM
- Britain is a lovely 3rd world country by dirty (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @12:26PM
- Re: Why you can't dump a directory... by davet (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @06:50PM
- I wonder about SunOS 4.*.* and lower... by jerodd (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @12:05PM
- Stooopid License Tricks by Maciej Stachowiak (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @07:39AM
- Interesting by Your own stupidity (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @01:25AM
- Interesting by Your own stupidity (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @11:59AM
- This is all good, by Master Switch (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @09:46AM
- Re: Why you can't dump a directory... by EWillieL (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @03:02PM
- Looks like we maybe /.'d SUN? by Mudhiker (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @12:53AM
- Funny, mine came real quick. by Mr. Piccolo (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @12:32AM
- Why americans don't like (commun|social)ism by Martian Moon Landing (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @09:47AM
- Stupid Nationalism by Shadow Knight (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @10:37AM
- Oh yeah, almost forgot... by coreybrenner (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @02:20AM
- Sun never delivered my free copy on Solaris! by Edward Carter (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @04:03AM
- Interesting by Edward Carter (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @04:05AM
- Interesting by Edward Carter (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @07:35AM
- Interesting example of European stupidity by Mark Atwood (Score:1) Sunday February 28 1999, @01:23PM
- NOT racism by Mark Atwood (Score:1) Sunday February 28 1999, @01:33PM
- NOT racism by rjb (Score:1) Friday February 26 1999, @09:31PM
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