Patent and licensing issues?

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sbergman27

Sep 09, 2005
6:57 AM EDT
This is good news, I guess.

But is DTrace patent encumbered? Someone at Sun seems willing to help now, but are there surprises in store down the road?

Also, how does the CDDL-BSD licensing thing work? I thought FreeBSD was just as locked out of OpenSolaris's technology as Linux is?

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