Lifted from slashdot.
Check out the thing here
It's a hell of a lot better then I was afraid that they'd do! It's actually very open source liscence and would be considured free software buy some folks.
It's basicly the same as the MPL, mozilla public license. It offers limited patent lawsuit protection for it's users, unlike the current GPL (and probably like GPLv3, so in the future it may actually be GPL-complient and you'll be able to use Solaris code in Linux, maybe).
Basicly if you sue somebody for using Solaris over patents (not your own code, btw, in Sun's code (for instance)), you would lose the right to use Solaris yourself under this specific license.
It's also non-viral unlike the GPL. Your required to distribute code your modified if you distribute the software in binary form, however if you incorporate the code into a larger body of work your are not required to change the licencing sceme to a compatable license. Much like the LGPL.
So basicly it's just your standard open source license from what I can tell. You have the right to use the code for whatever reason, however your required to allow access to the the code if you choose to distribute the software yourself.
Very nice, from what I can tell.
(IANAL)
see here for Sun's reasoning and explaination of changes.
Check out the thing here
It's a hell of a lot better then I was afraid that they'd do! It's actually very open source liscence and would be considured free software buy some folks.
It's basicly the same as the MPL, mozilla public license. It offers limited patent lawsuit protection for it's users, unlike the current GPL (and probably like GPLv3, so in the future it may actually be GPL-complient and you'll be able to use Solaris code in Linux, maybe).
Basicly if you sue somebody for using Solaris over patents (not your own code, btw, in Sun's code (for instance)), you would lose the right to use Solaris yourself under this specific license.
It's also non-viral unlike the GPL. Your required to distribute code your modified if you distribute the software in binary form, however if you incorporate the code into a larger body of work your are not required to change the licencing sceme to a compatable license. Much like the LGPL.
So basicly it's just your standard open source license from what I can tell. You have the right to use the code for whatever reason, however your required to allow access to the the code if you choose to distribute the software yourself.
Very nice, from what I can tell.
(IANAL)
see here for Sun's reasoning and explaination of changes.
