[tulip] tulip on solaris

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Dan Stromberg wrote:

> > It would be a violation of the GPL to distribute a version of the Linux
> > tulip driver ported to Solaris.  Well, at least until Scott McNealy GPLs
> > Solaris (scheduled just after the evolution of porcine aviation).

> Actually, if it's done as a loadable module, I don't think it is clear
> that this would be a gpl violation.

Please take Bruce Perens statements with a grain of salt.  Any
reasonable reading of the GPL rules out modifying the driver and linking
with a non-GPL OS.

Keep in mind that I have standing, motivation and experience to take
legal action.  Even Sun, with in-house legal resources and significant
technical investment, backed off of pursuing this issue.

> > You should ask Sun for a driver -- after all, they tout how much better
> > their commercial Unix is than Linux.  Remind them that "Sun's version of
> > Linux is named Solaris".

Did anyone ask Sun why they don't yet have driver?  What about Sun's
commitment to x86 Solaris?  Didn't you pay for Solaris and it's
extensive support?


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