Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 17th Jan 2007 00:19 UTC
Sun Microsystems is set to license OpenSolaris under the upcoming GNU GPLv3 in addition to the existing Common Development and Distribution License, sources close to the company have told eWEEK. "The next version of Solaris will include things like GNU Userland, which is already being attempted with OpenSolaris, while open-source solutions from other communities for things like package management also look very promising. Dual-licensing OpenSolaris with GPLv3 could make this even easier," said a source who declined to be named.
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>- Wasn't BSD originally a AT&T fork???
No it was originally an addon and afterwards it was a huge development between AT&T and Berkeley.
And the difference being??? Still looks, smells, and quacks like a fork.
The point is, "very much" - but it cannot deny it's origin. If you have AT&T Unix with huge parts of BSD and SunOS with parts of BSD, stick it together and what do you have afterwards? And you can use code with BSD license every time you want 
Other than /usr/ucb, where are the HUGE parts of BSD in Solaris (That did not original come from Sun)???
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2006-07-15
>- Wasn't BSD originally a AT&T fork???
q.e.d.
No it was originally an addon and afterwards it was a huge development between AT&T and Berkeley.
>Solaris 2.x onwards is very much AT&T SVR4 based.
The point is, "very much" - but it cannot deny it's origin. If you have AT&T Unix with huge parts of BSD and SunOS with parts of BSD, stick it together and what do you have afterwards? And you can use code with BSD license every time you want
>Wasn't one of the co-founders of Sun (Bill Joy) "largely responsible for the authorship of Berkeley UNIX
Should prove my saying
(Bill Joy in 77, BSD1 - addon to AT&T Unix)