On Jun 19, 2008, at 21:01, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Too late. There is already a ton of useful code that is in Solaris > that > is not covered under SCA or CDDL, and has no such guarantees. For > example, pretty much all of the desktop environment (X11, Gnome, > Mozilla), significant portions of the infrastructure (Apache, OpenSSL, > Sendmail), etc.
Just because someone in the past has had to go to a lot of trouble to assess risk in cases like these it doesn't mean that in future we should ignore the ability to minimise the risks that come, for example, from contributor patents. S.
