Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Aug 2007 17:28 UTC, submitted by vondur
"Don't expect to see key features of OpenSolaris showing up in the Linux kernel," said a top Linux maintainer. At his LinuxWorld opening keynote, Andrew Morton made it very clear that the appointment of former OSDL CTO and Debian co-founder Ian Murdock to Sun's OS platforms organization will not translate into a merging between the open source version of Solaris Unix with Linux. He didn't mince words. "It's a great shame that OpenSolaris still exists. They should have killed it," said Morton, addressing one attendee's question about the possibility of Solaris' most notable features being integrated into the kernel. "It's a disappointment and a mistake by Sun." Morton said none of those features - Zones, ZFS, DTrace - will end up in the Linux kernel because Sun refuses to adopt the GPL.
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2005-07-06
Well, there's always the not so small possibility that zdnet reporter took his word out of context..
That said, Sun is really being quite nasty when they say that they hope that DTrace will be integrated in the Linux kernel *and* using at the same time a GPL incompatible license.
If they 'genuinely wanted to have it integrated into Linux kernel'(their word not mine), they would have chosen a compatible license, so I can understand A. Morton being annoyed by Sun's double talk.
Just to be clear: I think that Sun has every right to choose a GPL-incompatible license if they wish to keep a competitive advantage over Linux, but in this case they should just admit it, not the "we hope that Linux will integrate our code" knowing full well that this is impossible (unless they change their license of course).
Oh, there is also a debate in FreeBSD over DTrace: some of the dev believe that the CDDL license apply also to the headers and prevent them to link to DTrace so they have chosen to not integrate DTrace in FreeBSDv7.
It's not sure that the concern is really valid or not, it's still debated AFAIK.