Sun Microsystems is expected to release Solaris as open-source software Tuesday, a centerpiece of the company's plan to regain lost relevance and fend of rivals Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft.
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Well....Open Solaris ships under CDDL whereas Linux is under the GPL. And as both licences are not supposed to work with each other many of the open solaris tools like dtrace cannot be legally ported to linux.
Well....Open Solaris ships under CDDL whereas Linux is under the GPL. And as both licences are not supposed to work with each other many of the open solaris tools like dtrace cannot be legally ported to linux.