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Re: [News] Sun Embraces The GNU GPLv3 for Some Projects

  • Subject: Re: [News] Sun Embraces The GNU GPLv3 for Some Projects
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:05:46 +0000
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Sun joins virtualisation fray with xVM
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
[...]
> | The Ops Center project will be released under the open source GPLv3
> | license, and Sun has set up a community site at [www.openxVM.org].
>  `----

That's quite a revolution, from the same company that devised the
"deliberately GPL incompatible" CDDL some years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribution_License#Controversy

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
|  make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
|  - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
`----

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