licensing question APSL

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Fri Feb 15 08:53:52 UTC 2008


Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> I think it's a significant testament to the quality of the Solaris
> parts we've been pulling in (ZFS, DTrace) that CDDL parts are now in
> the base tree.  They are carefully marked and isolated to make it easy
> to build CDDL-free systems in the same way that you can build GPL-free
> systems.

No you can't.  I've tried, and it's not doable at present.  There are
non-GNU parts of the tree that depend on GNU parts of the tree which
can't be replaced.

There is a WITHOUT_GNU build option, but it has no effect.

You can however build a non-GNU kernel.

DES
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