Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Sep 2005 09:10 UTC, submitted by george
One of the most useful tidbits from the basket of code released into the public domain this year by Sun Microsystems is likely to make it to the FreeBSD platform. DTrace is currently being ported to FreeBSD by Devon O'Dell, a FreeBSD developer working for OffMyServer, a US-based vendor which sells servers running BSD and Linux variants.
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> I don’t see why Sun couldn’t have been nicer to its
> neighbors and license OpenSolaris either under the
> GPL or under the BSD license.
Simple answer: Because it's their property and because they can. And because they don't like the GPL, which I understand and which they don't need to justify because it's their property and nobody else's.
> My only issue with it thus far is the use of the
> phrase "intellectual property".
Why? Because of the wording? That's not sensible. Intellectual property is a reality, regardless of how you call it. $GPLware is the intellectual property of $GPLware's author, period. Call it whatever you like and let others call it what it is.
Another question: Why do discussions about Sun's Free Software projects always end in a licensing discussion instead of technical things? Are there any FSF lobbyists or even GNU zealots among us?