Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 16th Jun 2007 21:32 UTC, submitted by Oliver
"There's been a lot of talk on lists and blogs about an exchange between Linus Torvalds, Jonathan Schwartz and Theo de Raadt regarding licensing and documentation. It all started with a 'cynical' message from Linus about Sun's motivation with regard to Open Source. Jonathan Schwartz responded by extending Linus a dinner invitation. What? The romance was briefly interrupted by a message from Theo pointing out the doublespeak."
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2006-08-06
Actually, the OpenSPARC chip is incredibly well documented. What Theo is actually banging on about is the documentation for the Schizo pci bridge chip. Totally different issue.
My beef with Theo is that he seems to be completely unable to try to approach the Schizo bridge chip issue from a different route - all he ever seems to do is yell that Sun isn't open because of that chip... rather than trying to build a constructive working relationship with people from Sun who could actually help him. His preferences in this matter do him no credit.
Regarding ZFS and patent indemnity, ZFS is licensed under CDDL, which most definitely does have a patent indemnity grant as part of accepting the license. The "problem" is that if you cannot accept CDDL then you don't get access to the IP that's licensed under it.
Don't spread fud, get the facts and spread those instead.