

CDDL is not LGPL and is GPL incompatible
CDDL is not LGPL and is GPL incompatible
Imagine we made 13 sextillion of those transistors… That’s more than there are grains of sand on earth
Of course, why would they not?
Why go through all the hoops if they are instead just could refuse patches? Open source doesn’t mean open to contributions, look at SQLite for example.
If they had the idea to release this open source they would have said so in clear words by now. They didn’t so I don’t have much hope, unless maybe if they get enough negative publicity to change their mind.
Why does VC need to ruin everything…
Stable bindings doesn’t mean open source, so I don’t see how that tells you it’s still on the table
It doesn’t make sense for an internal library for an open source application, it that case it’s not open source.
To be fair? Nowhere are they even suggesting they would release the SDK as FOSS, but they do say their password manager is open source. It seems like they just want a FOSS shell so they can claim it’s open source for but keep their business logic closed source.
It says the build error is a bug, not the inclusion of proprietary code.
I think that can be explained, but tell me how someone can be in favor of the death penalty but be against assisted suicide.
We have this:
and this:
At the time most Americans were farmers. Can’t be Sunday because it’s a Christian rest day, Wednesday neither because that’s market day. They might have to travel a whole day to get there, so it can’t be on Monday or Thursday either. Which leaves only Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#CDDL
Canonical ships ZFS like Nvidia ships proprietary drivers, which seems to work (legally and technically) but it means the development of ZoL is a bit cumbersome and can never be integrated in the kernel development like other filesystems.