Eric Lowe wrote:
This topic came up at OSCON, so perhaps that's where you heard the
rumblings coming from. Both Jonathan and Simon are admitted fans of the
draft GPLv3, and Sun has used GPL before (see OpenSPARC). Even so, the
license can't be changed until all the encumbered code is out, and that
will take quite awhile (still).
You can't change to GPL only, but you could dual-license, to allow those
who get the code the choice to distribute under either CDDL or GPL - those
distributing with closed binaries like OpenSolaris distros would choose CDDL,
those who wanted to integrate portions into GPL software would choose that.
(Of course, if GPLv3 was chosen, that may still not be enough to allow
incorporating into the Linux kernel, since all reports indicate Linus
still only wants to accept GPLv2.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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